in 1943 the nazis set up a secret weather monitoring station in canada (or the greater UK territories, i guess, cause at the time the place wasn't part of canada). weather goes west to east in the atlanta ocean, so the allies were the only ones who could get long term weather info for planning purposes. the nazis snuck in to canadian wilderness and set it up just...out in the open. they labeled things CANADIAN GUBMENT STUFF and threw american cigarette packs around to further hide that it was them and not an allied weather station. it all worked so well no one even found it until 1977 (or if anyone happened to find it before then no one cared or told anyone or acknowledged it). when it was found everyone assumed it was an allied military thing and ignored it. in 1981 some guy decided to finally ask someone in the canadian goverment/military. so this nazi weather station was there for nearly 40 years without anyone realizing. they apparently only got like a weeks worth of weather reports before it stopped working. the weather station is now prominently displayed in a museum as it's the one contribution canada made to world war 2. and sure it was a contribution for the nazis but it's all canada has to brag about!!
BUT WHAT ABOUT JUNO BEACH EH YA HOSER HOCKEY TIM HORTONS i hear you impotently screech in candian. yeah, what about it? the candians had a nice trip to the beach that day while americans did the actual fighting.
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