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Originally Posted by shocker
The coldest war? The AEF intervention in Siberia after WWI.
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Actually, as part of that intervention, the several thousand US troops sent to North Russia, Archangelsk and Murmansk, in 1918/19, to fight the Bolsheviks under British command, were quite a bit further north and likely even colder
They called themselves “Polar Bears”. Attached picture: the “Polar Bear” memorial in Michigan.