Editing History of skiing (section)

== Military skiing ==
{{Main|Ski warfare}}

In the [[World War I|First World War]], [[Austro-Hungarian Army|Austro-Hungarian troops]] on the Italian front used [[ski]]s and wore [[snow camouflage]] smocks and overtrousers over their [[combat uniform|uniforms]].<ref name="IWM Austro-Hungarian">{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205355172 |publisher=Imperial War Museum |access-date=13 April 2017 |ref=Q 112613 |title=The Austro-Hungarian Army on the Italian Front, 1915–1918}}</ref>

In the [[World War II|Second World War]], the German armed forces published a manual for its ski troops in 1942.<ref name="Skitruppen 1942">German Ski Training and Tactics (Special Series, No.20), Military Intelligence Division, War Department — 31 January 1944; Vorläufige Richtlinien für Ausbildung und Kampf von Skitruppen. — Berlin: A. Seydel, 1942</ref> The 1942 Russian war documentary film ''[[Moscow Strikes Back]]'' shows a scene of a winter attack by Russian ski infantry supported by tanks.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Moscow Strikes Back |title-link=Moscow Strikes Back |type=motion picture |year=1942 |last=Kopalin |first=Ilya |author-link=Ilya Kopalin |location=20:15<!--timing--> |publisher=[[Central Studio of Newsreels]]}}</ref>

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File:Austro-Hungarian ski patrol on Italian front in snow camouflage 1915-1918.jpg|First World War Austro-Hungarian ski patrol on Italian front in [[snow camouflage]], 1915–1918<ref name="IWM Austro-Hungarian"/> 
File:Italian troops on skis at [[La Thuile, Aosta Valley]], 2024
File:Ski patrol.jpg|Bulgarian alpine ski patrol, 1930s
File:Army-Wintertime-during-the-Finnish-Russian-War-1939-1940-142347257236.jpg|A Finnish soldier in a snow suit in the [[Winter War]], 1939–1940
File:The British Army in Norway April - June 1940 N160.jpg|British troops with skis in Norway, April 1940
File:SkiSoldier.png|Drawing of [[World War II|Second World War]] German ski soldier with double sling for rifle, 1942<ref name="Skitruppen 1942"/> 
File:German WW2 snowshoes, skis with cable bindings, ski poles.jpg|German [[snowshoe]]s, skis with [[cable binding]]s and [[ski pole]]s, Norway c. 1942<ref name="Skitruppen 1942"/>
File:551-PIR-maritime-alps-ski-patrol.jpg|Members of French 551st Parachute Infantry Regiment on patrol in the French Alps, 1944
File:Military Parade in Morocco (6).tif|Moroccan soldiers on parade with skis and snow camouflage, 1960
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