HMCS Cobalt departs the Icelandic port of Hvalfjörður on Nov. 16-17, 1941. The Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette was part of Canada’s contribution of ships, aircraft and troops to the wartime Allied occupation of the island. [IWM/Wikimedia]
CF-18 jets fly over Iceland on April 5, 2013, during Operation Ignition, a NATO mission to monitor the country’s air space. Though Iceland is a founding member of NATO, it’s the only one without its own standing military.[Corporal Pierre Habib, 3 Wing Bagotville/CAF]
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