The Day The Duck Hunters Died. Armistice Day Nov. 11, 1940

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The Winds of Hell

On November 11, 1940, one of the deadliest blizzards this region has ever seen struck. The Armistice Day Storm killed 49 people in Minnesota, 150 nationwide. One of the most tragic chapters of the storm occured on the rivers, lakes and wetlands of the Midwest. Hundreds of duck hunters...
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The Day the Duck Hunters Died - Sporting Classics Daily

Nothing escaped the "winds of hell" and the deadly, suffocating snows that swept across the Upper Midwest on that fateful day in 1940.
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A truly tragic event. Some of the first-hand accounts of the survivors are horrifying.
 
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