I served a 5 month period in Bosnia with UNProfor (United Nations protection force) in 1995. My contingent: 1 (NL/BE) VN Logistics and Transport batallion. My rotation: L8.
I was stationed in Busovaca (Busovača, Bosnian-Croat area). I drove countless kilometers in an ambulance as a driver/medic. Our job was to provide medical assistance to convoys. These convoys provided humanitarian aid for refugees and logistics for Dutch military compounds in Bosnia.
See this link for photos.
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Scans of the UN route / road map see here. Update, August 2007 ! the scans are now stitched together in 1 raster image.
Links to other sites are also available. Other people made much better looking sites so check them out.
Update december 2004: I've posted most interesting photos I have. What I want to do now is setup a book in which the photo's and text can be combined. In this way a more coherent story can be read here. Another thing is the 'Rotation video tape'. I can try to digitize it and put it online as a mpeg4 file.
I found the original WordPerfect files for the "Rotatie Geitenpad" magazine. See this book page for the contents. It's still work in progress though ...
I was surprised that the http://www.unprofor.org domain name was still available, well it isn't anymore ... (unprofor.nl is registered but not active. I haven't done anything with unprofor.org yet.
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Here are some scans of a comic book: "De blauwhelmen" of Marc Westerlain with the lead character: "Sarah Spits":
Please post a comment if you are interested or have additions/corrections !
Here is the famous 'In Flanders fields' poem.
Comments
He Lucas! Leuk man om dit
He Lucas!
Leuk man om dit tegen te komen....
De arts op de foto is majoor-arts, zijn naam is Berry Suntenmaartensdijk.
Weet jij toevallig wat het voor een helicopter was, die russische?
Groeten Bas
Bedankt voor de naam van de majoor.
Ik kon zijn naam nergens meer vinden.
Even gezocht naar het type helicopter:
"Mi-26(T) is a multipurpose helicopter having no analogues over the world. Only this helicopter is able to carry loads weighting up to 20 tons in cargo cabin or on external sling. For civil and military purposes."
Ik weet niet of dit nog klopt, maar overal word deze helicopter 'de grootste van de wereld' genoemd.
Ik ben van plan een www.unprofor.org site op te zetten waar iedereen lid van kan worden etc. Een beetje zoals dienstmakkers.nl, alleen dan helemaal gratis en specifiek voor unprofor.