The equipment and clothes needed by U. S. soldiers to fight in Russia during winter
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The equipment and clothes needed by U. S. soldiers to fight in Russia during winter
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They Are Ready for a Siberian Winter
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FOR our troops in Siberia |
there is an enemy stronger
and more relentless than
the Bolsheviki; and that is
winter. Napoleon's cohorts
had a tilt with that same
enemy in the less severe
climate of Russia proper, and
came off second best, finding
on the great retreat from
Moscow that the numbing
cold clutching at their vitals
and the drifting snow drag-
ging at their legs were more
deadly than the Cossacks.
In Siberia the Yankee fight-
ing men will face a cold more
extreme than Napoleon's |
troops knew. Even in the
southern parts the winter bites
deep. The extensive lowlands
as well as the elevated plains
lie open to the Arctic Ocean.
The air, after being chilled on
the plateaus, drifts down upon
the lowlands, and in the re-
gion of the lower Lena ex-
tremely low temperatures ob-
tain. Verkhoyansk isknownas
“the pole of cold of the eastern
atmosphere.” The average
temperature in December and
January at Yakutsk is —40.2°
F. and at Verkhoyansk —53.1°
F., and occasionally the cold
is so severe that official ther-
mometers register as low as
—175° and —85° F.
To work and fight in tem-
peratures such as these, an
army needs the equipment of
an Arctic expedition. For-
tunately, our own northern
border is cold enough to have
been a good laboratory in
which to work out ideas for
clothing soldiers in winter,
and the Yankee in Siberia will
be armed against the elements.
The War Department has
devised fur-lined coats, fur
helmets, fur gauntlets, and
Arctic-proved footwear for our
men. The equipment was
assembled in San Francisco,
and by the time you read this
it has long been in service, A
New York commuter looking
at the pictures will sigh for
Siberia and its comforts.
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eng
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1919-01
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38
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
