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=== Other memorials === In 1996, [[Interstate 15 in Montana]] between [[Helena, Montana|Helena]] and [[Sweet Grass, Montana|Sweet Grass]] was renamed the "First Special Service Force Memorial Highway".<ref name=19990915herald>{{Cite news |title = Highway renaming set for this weekend |work = The Lethbridge Herald |date = 1999-09-15 |page = 4 |df = mdy-all |url = https://newspaperarchive.com/ca/alberta/lethbridge/lethbridge-herald/1999/09-15/page-4 |access-date = 20 February 2017 |via = NewspaperArchive.com |url-access=subscription }}</ref> This highway was chosen because it was the route taken in 1942 by the Canadian volunteers to join their American counterparts for training at Fort Harrison.<ref name=19990915herald/> The entire length of [[Alberta Highway 4]] received the same name in 1999.<ref name=19990915herald/> The force is also memorialized in several commemorative plaques mounted in city halls and along the route they fought in Italy and Southern France, including one outside the [[Protestant Cemetery, Rome]], next to the [[Pyramid of Cestius]] and another on the [[Embassy of the United States in Rome]], facing [[Via Vittorio Veneto]].
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