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Showing posts with label UN Peacekeepers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UN Peacekeepers. Show all posts
Monday, 26 May 2014
Locked Up Abroad - Sierra Leone Jungle Siege
The Royal Irish Regiment members held hostage, then rescued by the Parachute Regiment, good on both regiments
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Korean War Newsreel: The Canadian brigade fights alongside UN forces (+p...
The Canadians in Korea. I began my teaching career in South Korea, and visited as many of the battlefields as I could. Even now, South Korea is still at war with the North.
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Canadian Peacekeepers
Master corporal, Canadian Forces, Haïti, 1996
Serving with the United Nations in front of the presidential palace at Port au Prince, Haïti, 1996. both shots (DND)
Canadian M113 armoured personnel carriers, U.N. Protection Force in ex-Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR), 1993
Canadian armoured personnel carriers serving with the United Nations at the Sarajevo airport in Bosnia during the 1993 siege of that city. (DND)
Canadians serving with U.N. Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), 1965
Canadians serving with the United Nations in Cyprus, 1965. (DND)
Canadian observers, U.N. Operation in the Congo (ONUC), 1961
Canadian observers on the roof of the building that served as United Nations Forces HQ in Leopoldville/Kinshasa, Congo/Zaire, 1961. (DND)
A Canadian 'Blue Beret', circa 1975
A Canadian 'Blue Beret' serving with United Nations peacekeeping forces in Cyprus, circa 1975. Reconstruction by Ron Volstad. (Canadian Department of National Defence) All phtos and artwork courtsey of www.cmhg.gc.ca
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