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Collection Summary
Collection: 00709 - Pembina Historical Society
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00074
Title: Douglas B-18 Bolo taking off from Canada after being pulled across the border near Pembina, N.D.
Date: 1940
Summary: Various military aircraft were hauled across the US-Canada Border by horse in the early days of WWII to circumvent neutrality laws. Neutrality laws prevented the British or French to fly airplanes for the war effort from the United States to their final destination, and prevented American pilots from doing the same. If the planes could be gotten across the border in some other way, then American neutrality would remain intact.
Red ID: PH_I_152267 Image ID: 109918 Image Notes: 00709-00074

Collection: 00709 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Pembina Historical Society
Date: 1905-1994

Summary: Images of Pembina homes, businesses, floods, residents and officials, baseball teams, churches, and horses pulling planes across the Canadian border before the WWII Lend Lease program began.

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