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[1] Jarnick, Jerome C. “Revisiting ‘Q’ Force,” Canadian Military Mail Study Group Newsletter No. 207 (Jan., 2013), pp. 1264—1265. [21 Plain, Brian C. “Force ‘Q’: 1942—1943,” CMMSG Newsletter No. 68 (May 1986), pp. 460—463. [3] Sayles, C.D. Ed. The BNAPS Catalogue of Canadian Military Mail Mar kings, Vol. II: The World War II Era, 1936—1945. BNAPS Ltd., April 2Q11, pp. 277—278, passim. [4] Burrows, Peter C Ed. British Empire Civil Censorship Devices, WWII, Section 7: Canada & Newfoundland. Civil Censorship Study Group, 2010, passim.
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