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Minnesota meets Norway: Brainerd man participates in Home Guard exchange

...followed them inland. Six hours later DeGeest arrived at Camp Torpo, a rustic military camp in the Hallingdal Valley built by German...sweaters. One sweater factory sent a sales representative to Camp Torpo when the soldiers first arrived. For $50 a person could buy...

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Norwegian Exchange is a Minnesota tradition

...Home Guard soldiers flew to Minnesota. Two days before that, a similar group of Minnesota National Guard soldiers arrived in Torpo, Norway, to train. Aboard that first plane to Minnesota was this year's Norwegian officer in charge, Lt. Col. Rolf Wold...

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