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Post by Zodiac Wed 05 Sep 2018, 6:57 pm



CP-140 destined for Trenton museum - aircraft has been dismantled and is being moved by road


David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen

Published Sep 05, 2018



The Canadian Forces will be moving a dismantled CP-140 Aurora to its new home at a museum in Trenton.

The aircraft is now on the road after leaving a holding facility in Halifax, NS, and is expected to arrive at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, ON sometime between Sept. 7-13.

The Aurora was originally from 14 Wing Greenwood.

As movement of the larger components of the aircraft, the fuselage and wings, require the use of two traffic lanes, the Canadian Forces is asking the public for patience if they encounter the oversize load on the highway.

The aircraft will be reassembled in Trenton, and officially welcomed into the National Air Force Museum of Canada’s collection at a later date, according to the military.

The aircraft to be transported was officially withdrawn from use in the Royal Canadian Air Force’s fleet of CP-140s in 2015.

The Royal Canadian Air Force currently has another 14 CP-140 Auroras in service, which are based in 19 Wing Comox, BC, and 14 Wing Greenwood, NS. The fleet of CP-140s started entering service in 1980.








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Post by Starman Thu 06 Sep 2018, 9:36 am

Canadian Forces Aurora aircraft taking the long road to new home in Ontario

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Post by Falcon Fri 07 Sep 2018, 7:22 pm

Aviation a passion best shared in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec
By Carmel Kilkenny | english@rcinet.ca
Friday 7 September, 2018

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Post by Tazzer Sat 08 Sep 2018, 8:18 am



Plan for new Afghan museum in Calgary is welcome news, no matter where you live in Canada


Published Sep 08, 2018


Ten-hut! The recent decision by Ottawa to build a new military museum in Calgary merits attention.

The permanent museum will commemorate our country’s contributions to the war in Afghanistan, in which more than 40,000 Canadians served and 162 died between 2001 and 2014.

The commemoration project will start with a travelling exhibit, highlighting artifacts and stories from Afghan war veterans. While the exhibit moves across the country and possibly abroad for four to five years, fundraising will begin for a new permanent installation in Calgary. With a potential price tag of $50 million, corporate and private donations will help offset the cost, supported by a variety of levels of government.


The new museum — estimated to cover more than 10,000 square feet — could likely find its home as part of the Military Museums complex on Crowchild Trail Southwest, a spokesman says.

The decision to establish a new national museum in Calgary will not only augment the city’s cultural fabric, visitor offerings, construction activity and employment opportunities. It could also become another example of a successful national institution operating outside the nation’s capital.

In Canada, the concept of national museums started in the mid-1800s, when the government — of what was then called the Province of Canada — gave the green light to the Geological Museum in Montreal. It was eventually moved to Ottawa and in 1927, the National Museum of Canada was officially created. Today, the federal government operates a half-dozen national museums, most of which are in the Ottawa-Hull region.

Attempts to establish national institutions in other parts of the country haven’t always come to fruition, such as the 2006-07 effort to establish a national portrait gallery in Calgary.

But, winds of change began blowing through the hallowed halls of federal government in more recent years and the two most recently opened national museums are located in opposite regions of the country. In 2011, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 was established in Halifax and in 2014, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened its doors in Winnipeg.

To learn that a new national museum will soon find its home here is welcome news. It will highlight the myriad offerings already found at the Military Museums of Calgary — the second largest such institution in the country.

And, it will remind us of an important part of our history. Many of the soldiers who lost their lives in the Afghan war were from Western Canada, with the Alberta- and Manitoba-based Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry playing a significant role in the conflict aimed at al-Qaeda members and the Taliban regime.

Their sacrifices deserve commemoration, no matter where you live in Canada.








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Hamilton’s iconic Avro Lancaster took to the skies Tuesday afternoon for the 30th anniversary of its restoration by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.

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Post by Phantom Wed 19 Sep 2018, 9:07 am




'The unknown war': Military Museums to host Canadians and the Vietnam War exhibition


Chris Nelson • For The Calgary Herald

Published Sep 18, 2018



It was the war tens of thousands of Canadians chose to fight, yet one in which Canada deliberately refused to recognize their service.

The Vietnam War was a military, societal and political battleground that left physical and emotional damage on all those involved, including an estimated 40,000 Canadians who joined the United States armed forces even though their homeland forbade it.


Yet, half a century later, many people are unaware of the huge role Canada played in that polarizing conflict, a lack of historical knowledge that the Military Museums in Calgary is hoping to dispel with an exhibition opening later this month.

Canadians and the Vietnam War is a multi-part exhibition opening at the museums’ founder’s gallery on Sept. 27. It will include oral histories and artifacts from some of the estimated 40,000 Canadians who served with U.S. forces.

There will also be an exhibit on the vital peacekeeping role Canada played over decades in Vietnam, as well as a look at those South Vietnamese veterans who escaped and resettled in this country following the fall of Saigon in 1975 — two years after American troops departed.

In addition, two similar memorials will be brought to Calgary in early October to recognize those who gave their lives in the conflict — the Moving Wall, which is a half-sized replica of the famous Vietnam memorial in Washington, D.C., along with a Canadian memorial wall, which carries the names of more than 160 countrymen who died due to that conflict.

Museums’ chief curator Rory Cory hopes the exhibit helps Calgarians understand this country’s important but often forgotten involvement in what became one of the world’s most controversial conflicts.


“Veterans associated with the Vietnam War have received very little recognition in Canada, and we hope to help correct this oversight,” said Cory.

He added it’s estimated as many Canadians went south to join up as the number of U.S. citizens who fled into Canada to avoid being drafted.

“The estimates of actual numbers are very vague. Because of Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act it was actually illegal for our citizens to join a foreign military, so a lot of guys, when they went south to join the American Army, would just give the name of the city in the U.S. where they actually joined up. So it is hard to track guys down,” said Cory.

It is also difficult to know exactly how many Canadians were killed because their bodies would be sent back to hometowns, and often, because of the anger that war generated, families quietly buried the victims with little fanfare.

However, at least two of those killed in action were Calgarians: Alan Sturdy and Geoff Lukey.


Sturdy was a teenager living with his parents in California when the family decided to move back to Calgary. Missing his girlfriend and wanting to finish his education, Sturdy returned and ended up volunteering for the U.S. army to avoid being drafted — volunteers could choose which branch of the military they desired while draftees were assigned by the government.

Laurie Slater said her elder brother loved animals and dreamed of becoming a vet, so it was inevitable he’d end up with the dog scout platoon. Sturdy would twice be awarded the Bronze Star for valour before he died, at age 22, blown up trying to free his beloved service dog that had become snared in a Viet Cong booby trap.

“He sent the rest of the fellows back and said he was going to try and free his dog, that is how he died,” said Slater.

Sturdy’s body was returned to Calgary and today lies in Queen’s Park Cemetery under a U.S. military headstone.

“I had the gravesite opened up and put my parents’ ashes inside. They are both in there with him now,” said his sister.


Calgary-born Geoff Lukey loved all things military, even as a boy, which eventually led him to enlist with the U.S. Marines after travelling to Montana in 1968.

He was soon sent to Vietnam, where he would proudly fly the Maple Leaf wherever stationed. In October 1969 his platoon was on patrol in Theu Thien province when one soldier fell into a fast-moving stream. Lukey, 21, saved his comrade but was swept away and drowned. His body was escorted to Calgary by a fellow Marine, and now rests in Burnsland Cemetery.


Darley Frizzell believes there are other such soldiers buried in Calgary. He hopes the exhibition encourages relatives to come forward and share memories, stories and information.

“I know they will find it immensely interesting and maybe then people will let us know if their brother or son had died in Vietnam. Then we will have more names on the wall,” he said.

“If it was severe wounds or Agent Orange that later resulted in their death back in Canada, and relatives can show that, then their names will go on the wall also. It is not just those who were killed during the war but also those who died later because of problems from Vietnam,” he added.

Frizzell, who is now post commander of the American Legion in Calgary, was born in Guelf, Ont., and joined the U.S. air force in 1966. He was sent to Vietnam in 1971 and worked refuelling aircraft, first in Da Nang and then northern Thailand.

He remembers one lovely, cloudless day in Thailand while walking along the camp perimeter when suddenly he was soaked.

“I couldn’t figure out where it came from. My uniform was drenched. Then I saw a bunch of aircraft overhead spraying what they then called ‘bug spray’. A few days later there wasn’t any jungle left,” he said.

It was Agent Orange that had drenched the young soldier, a powerful defoliant and carcinogen, which was used by the U.S. to clear jungle. Frizzell believes it led to later health problems, although he has not received compensation from the military.


He said many veterans never spoke about the war, given the division it caused in both the U.S. and in Canada. He recalled returning to North America in uniform after his brother had died and transferring planes in San Francisco.

“It was total animosity. I stepped off the plane to transfer and people threw rotten eggs at me and called me baby killer and murderer. There was no support at all. I didn’t speak about Vietnam for 10 years when I came back to Canada — not even with close friends,” he said.

He believes things have since changed and this exhibit is a good way of educating people.

“It gives the Canadian people a chance to understand that we were just young men. It was adventure, getting an education and travelling around the world. Then we just got sent to Vietnam,” he added.

“So why now? We still think of Vietnam as a recent war but it is 50 years ago. The veterans are in their 70s now and we are starting to lose them. We wanted to do this while we could still recognize these guys.

“Here in Canada, it is still the unknown war. Lots of people have no idea so many Canadians were involved,” he said.








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Post by Dragonforce Fri 21 Sep 2018, 7:17 pm



Air museum's new director settling in


Luke Hendry

Published Sep 21, 2018



CFB TRENTON — Kevin Windsor has spent his life preserving the past, but he and his staff are now planning 30 years into the future.
Windsor is the new executive director of the National Air Force Museum of Canada. He spent the last six years as its curator, working with past director Chris Colton, who retired in June.
“Chris and I had always worked pretty closely… It’s kind of a natural progression,” said Windsor. He’d served as acting director whenever Colton was away.
“It’s still a little surreal,” Windsor said, explaining there are moments when he expects his predecessor to return from a vacation. He said Colton has, however, helped ease the transition by advising him.
Prior to taking the job as curator, Windsor was curator of the Niagara Falls History Museum, where he’d worked since 2002.
Windsor and his wife, Allison, who works in the Belleville Police Services transcription bureau, live in Trenton.
Son Isaac, 16, is in high school; son Josh, 18, enlisted recently in the army. Windsor said his own father served in the air force; several generations of grandfathers were in the army.
“Kevin is a talented, well-read and well-connected military historian,” museum vice-chairman Steve Bolton wrote via e-mail.
“His collections-management expertise has helped to make the National Air Force Museum of Canada a leader in preserving our air force heritage.”
Windsor helped “create an informative and entertaining experience for our visitors” during his time as curator, Bolton said.
“Now as executive director he leads a very talented staff as we continue to grow.”
The museum has seven full-time staff positions, with new hires or vacancies in the roles of curator, marketing and communications, and restoration workshop technician.
Despite having about 120 volunteers, Windsor said, “We’re getting in desperate need of more.
“They’re getting into their 70s and 80s. A few of them are in their 90s.” Several have died within the last year.
Growth is the main item on Windsor’s agenda.
“In 2014 I started planning the expansion of the museum,” he said.
“Then the Lancaster project fell in our laps and we knew we had to get serious about it.”
Last year the museum acquired an Avro Lancaster bomber from the city of Edmunston, N.B. It flew in Europe in the Second World War and in Canada in peacetime. A group comprised mainly of volunteers is now restoring it to its post-war configuration, a job that’s to be ready by April 1, 2024, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The Lancaster will be housed in an addition which will double the museum’s footprint by adding a space measuring about 37 m by 49 m (120 ft by 160 ft). It, too, will be opened officially on the centennial.
Windsor said he’s envisioning the museum as a destination for people travelling between Toronto and Ottawa or Montreal – a place to spend a few hours and let the kids unwind during a long journey.
“We want to make this more of a family-friendly destination. We’re looking at more interactive, more hands-on” exhibits, he said.
Not that it isn’t already family-friendly or interactive.
On a given day, kids can be seen clambering into one of several aircraft cockpits once used as simulators by air crew in training. Visitors can test their piloting skills using a computer simulation which features some of the aircraft on display.
The long-range plan, said Windsor, is to extend the museum’s walls much farther south. At that point, likely decades away, nearly all of the air park’s aircraft would be indoors. It’s currently closed from December through April because of winter conditions.
The four largest planes – the Hercules, Canadair CP-107 Argus, CP-140 Aurora and Boeing 720 – are to remain outside.
The museum was once the Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Museum but Windsor said there is no plan to change the current name. The name of the RCAF Memorial Air Park remains in use.
The RCAF name was in use for 51 of 104 years of Canadian military flight, he said, but “we feel that it is important to focus on everyone’s stories.
“There was the Royal Flying Corps (an army formation), Canadian Air Force, RCAF, Canadian Armed Forces, Air Command, and back to the RCAF.”
The museum is at 220 RCAF Rd. north of Old Highway 2 and until Sept. 30 is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Between Oct. 1 and April 30 it will be open Wednesday to Sunday during the same hours. For information, visit www.airforcemuseum.ca or call 613-965-7223.








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Post by Spider Fri 28 Sep 2018, 9:54 am

Piece of Calgary's aviation history may literally fall apart

Scott Dippel · CBC News · Posted: Sep 28, 2018

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Post by Zoneforce Mon 01 Oct 2018, 9:41 am



Clues offered to family war mysteries


Nugget Staff

Published Oct 01, 2018



This Remembrance Day will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

In recognition, the North Bay Museum is hosting a War Veterans Research Project with Doug Newman, heritage officer for 22 Wing/Canadian Forces Base North Bay.

Newman will show people how they can access their relatives’ First World War military service records, revealing what they did in the war, where they served, where they trained, who they served with, how much they were paid, their punishments (if any), medals received, if they were wounded or got sick — all of the details.

If a relative died in the war, the records will often relate the circumstances.

Newman also is performing this service for people whose relatives were killed in action in the Second World War.

“Our family members, volunteers and conscripts, lived adventures we can only dream of and nightmares we cannot imagine,” he says. “Unfortunately, for most Canadian families their story is a mystery, dying with the veterans.

“Our relatives were remarkable people who witnessed and experienced remarkable things, at great sacrifice. They deserve to be remembered, and the best way to remember them is to learn their story.”

Newman retired from the Canadian Armed Forces in April after 42 years’ service in the airforce and army. He will be available at the museum every Saturday between Oct. 6 and Nov. 10 from 10 am-2:40 pm. To give people adequate time with Newman, each research day is divided into 20-minute slots.

Appointments can be made by emailing naomi@northbaymuseum.com or calling 705-476-2323.








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Post by Maxstar Tue 09 Oct 2018, 8:24 pm



Remembering Canada's Hundred Days

Vincent Ball
Published Oct 09, 2018



Military historian Andy Robertshaw will be in Brantford on Oct. 20 to speak about the last hundred days of the First World War.

Robertshaw, who has worked on films, including War Horse, will be speaking at the Canadian Military Heritage Museum, 347 Greenwich St., Brantford.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and Robertshaw’s presentation begins at 7 p.m. Admission is by donation.

“With this being the 100th anniversary of the armistice approaching, we’re delighted to have him come to Brantford,” said Bob Ion, a museum director.

“The last 100 days of the First World War are significant because that’s when a lot of Canadian soldiers, including many from Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations, were killed in battle.”

An expert on the First World War and trench warfare, Robertshaw is an honorary lecturer at University College London in England. He is the author of several books, including Ghosts on the Somme, 24hr Trench and The Somme: 1 July 1916.

Robertshaw, who has worked for the advisory board of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, regularly delivers lectures in North America.

The war’s last 100 days began on Aug. 8, 1918, and continued to the armistice on Nov. 11, 1918. During that time, more than 100,000 Canadians advanced 130 kilometres, capturing about 32,000 prisoners and nearly 3,800 artillery pieces, according to the Canadian Veterans’ Affairs website.

While the triumphs during “Canada’s Hundred Days” were impressive, they came at a high price. More than 6,800 Canadians and Newfoundlanders were killed and about 39,000 wounded during the last three months of fighting.

Thirty Canadians and Newfoundlanders were presented with the Victoria Cross, the highest award for military valour, for their actions during the last 100 days.

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Post by Starman Wed 10 Oct 2018, 8:24 am



Canadian peacekeepers honoured in 2019 exhibit at Oakville museum

By Kathy Yanchus Oakville Beaver
Tuesday, October 9, 2018



A very special exhibit honouring Canadian peacekeepers is scheduled to open next August at Oakville Museum.

During the months between now and then, organizer Michael Johnson is hoping to connect with Oakville/Halton peacekeepers to collect stories, memorabilia and photos as content for the exhibit.

A military historian and collector for more than 40 years, Johnson is hoping to showcase not just the personal stories and pictures, but items such as uniforms, headgear, including the iconic blue beret, medals, regimental tour books, souvenir beer mugs and other local crafts brought back with peacekeepers.


The collection will mark the efforts and experiences of Canadian peacekeepers from a diverse selection of missions, and simultaneously highlight the 45th anniversary of the loss of the Buffalo Nine and the 11th anniversary of Peacekeepers’ Day.

“Peacekeeping, as opposed to military observers, was the invention of Lester B. Pearson in 1956 in the aftermath of the second Arab Israeli War, so is a Canadian invention,” said Johnson. “2019 marks the 45th anniversary of the loss of Buffalo 461 with the largest loss of Canadian peacekeepers on one incident — nine — which was the reason Aug. 9 was chosen as the date to commemorate National Peacekeepers’ Day, since 2008.”

On Aug. 9, 1974, a Canadian Buffalo cargo plane carrying the nine peacekeepers, providing air support for UN observers on the Golan Heights was shot down, killing all on-board.

During the 1960s and 70s, Canada contributed to almost every peacekeeping mission, but political fallout from the mission to Somalia, marked a change in attitude and Canadian peacekeeping was scaled back, said Johnson.


The exhibit will feature several themes, said Johnson, including the origin and evolution of peacekeeping, Canadian missions and Oakville’s contribution; the cost and sacrifice, the casualties. The exhibit will also focus on accomplishments, gallantry awards to Canadians from the Congo, Cyprus and the former Yugoslavia, as well as the global aspect of peacekeeping.

‘We would like to hear from veterans of peacekeeping missions especially those from Oakville/Halton. We are interested in their experiences, their reaction to being in a totally unfamiliar environment and culture, humorous stories or what effect a mission had on them when they returned.

“If the veteran wishes, we can withhold their name and just indicate rank, unit and mission as we realize that part of the cost of peacekeeping has been negative effects on some of those who served. We can use stories, photographs and any personal items …”

Johnson and his wife Terry, whose family has been in Oakville since 1850, became involved with the museum when they provided family photographs and Oakville related pictures for the Shadows of War exhibition and also contributed to Words to End All Wars: Correspondence During the Great War, as well as collaborated on the 175th anniversary of St. Andrew’s Church and The Grammells, a history of his wife’s grandfather’s 50-year involvement with the Oakville Lakeshore business community.

“We hope that this exhibition will raise awareness of the contribution that Canadian men and women have made to world peace and what their service has meant to them and their families.”

Anyone wishing to connect with Johnson or contribute to the exhibit, is asked to email him at sumgate338266@gmail.com.











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Post by Magnum Wed 10 Oct 2018, 9:29 am



Greater Vernon Museum hosts First World War presentation

MORNING STAR STAFF / Oct. 9, 2018



Just in time for Remembrance Day, the Greater Vernon Museum and Archives will host a presentation by Professor Howard Hisdal entitled Defeating the German Army in 1918: The 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles and the Hundred Days Campaign from Amiens to Mons as part of the museum’s Speaker Series.

The Nov. 7 talk will also complement the museum’s latest exhibition, Finish the Fight! Vernon in the Great War.

The presentation by Hisdal looks at the last hundred days of the First World War which ended on Nov. 11, 1918. The viewpoint is that of the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, a regiment recruited in the Okanagan and Victoria, and led by Lieutenant Colonel Chalmers Johnston, a militia officer from Vernon. Hisdal will look at the tactics and leadership that made the 2nd CMR and the entire Canadian Corps into a highly efficient fighting machine that drove back the German Army and helped win the war.


Hisdal, CD (Canadian Forces Decoration for honourable service), MA, graduated from Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, and Royal Military College, Kingston. He earned his master’s of arts degree at Carleton University. He has 25 years of military service, 18 of those years as an officer in the British Columbia Dragoons, the descendant of the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. He retired as a captain in 2014.

Hisdal has taught history at Okanagan College since 2005 and is the chair of the history department. He is also the vice-president of the Okanagan Military Museum Society in Kelowna and on the board of directors for the Kelowna Museums Society.

As space is limited in the museum, please call 250-542-3142 to pre-register for the Nov. 7 presentation from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is $5 per person, at the door. For more information visit www.vernonmuseum.ca or find the museum on Facebook.








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Post by Apollo Sun 14 Oct 2018, 5:40 pm



Calgary aviation museum seeks help to save deteriorating, historic Canadian jet

By Adam MacVicar . Global News
Posted October 14, 2018



It was once a key piece of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now, it sits in deterioration outside the Hangar Flight Museum in Calgary.

Taking to the skies in January 1950, the Avro CF-100 Canuck began operations with the Canadian military and NATO.

While the Canuck wasn’t the fastest of the contemporary fighter jets deployed around the world, the twin-engine aircraft had all-weather capabilities: perfect for defending the country in the extreme conditions of Canada’s northern borders during the Cold War.


Fast-forward nearly 70 years, and one of the remaining models of this Canadian relic sits in decay, braving the elements because they don’t have room to store the aircraft inside.

Riddled with rusted out holes and peeling paint, there is concern the planes wings won’t last much longer and its landing gear may collapse.


“It’s seriously deteriorated,” Lowe said. “To the point where we know we have to do something in the short term.”

Now, museum officials are asking the City of Calgary for help, since the city technically owns the Cold War-era artifact.


“What we need to do, initially, is at least get the aircraft inside and out of the elements. Beyond that, the ultimate goal would be to have it restored to full display condition,” Lowe said.

The repairs are expected to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. A recent report at a city committee shows the museum is strapped for cash, making it difficult to grow operations.

“We will be starting a fundraising campaign, a capital campaign in the very near future,” Lowe said. “Our goal is to build a restoration and display space.”


The museum hopes the new space will help with the condition of the aircraft while expanding the museum.

In the meantime, the museum and the city are working together to develop a plan. There is no word on when any financial decisions will be made.

While the plane will never fly again, Lowe hopes it’ll be restored to what it once was before it’s too late.










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Post by Slider Sat 20 Oct 2018, 1:18 pm

Military Museums honour Sikhs connected with Canada's military


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