CROATIA: UNITED STATES TROOPS CONSTRUCT BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER SAVA WHICH FORM A BORDER BETWEEN CROATIA AND BOSNIA
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CROATIA: UNITED STATES TROOPS CONSTRUCT BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER SAVA WHICH FORM A BORDER BETWEEN CROATIA AND BOSNIA
- Title: CROATIA: UNITED STATES TROOPS CONSTRUCT BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER SAVA WHICH FORM A BORDER BETWEEN CROATIA AND BOSNIA
- Date: 26th December 1995
- Summary: ZUPANJA, CROATIA (DECEMBER 26) (RTV (A) - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV SECURITY ADVANCE PARTY OF ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS MOVING TOWARDS RIVER SAVA (4 SHOTS) 0.34 2. SV U.S. ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS DRIVE ONTO FERRY ACROSS RIVER 1.23 3. SCU GENERAL MICHAEL WALKER (COMMANDER OF IFOR GROUND TROOPS) SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.41 4. SCU UNITED STATES GENERAL PATRICK O'NEAL, UNITED STATES IFOR COMMANDER SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.07 5. SV U.S. TRUCK STUCK IN MUD/FLOODED U.S CAMP AREA 2.22 6. SV U.S. TRUCKS STUCK IN MUD/U.S. SOLDIERS TRYING TO GET TRUCKS OUT 2.36 7. SV U.S. TRUCK GETTING OUT OF MUD 2.40 SEQUENCE 3 TRANSCRIPT: WALKER "VERY MUCH ACCORDING TO PLAN. OF COURSE THERE IS ALWAYS FRICTION IN THESE THINGS WHEN THEY ARE SET UP BUT GENERAL WILLIAM NASH (COMMANDER OF U.S. GROUND TROOPS) AND THE ORGANISATION WHO ARE DOING THIS RIVER CROSSING HAVE CLEARLY GOT IT WELL UNDER CONTROL. SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE AND THINGS ARE GOING IN A DELIBERATE AND NON-AGGRESSIVE WAY" SEQUENCE 4 TRANSCRIPT: O'NEAL "TODAY, LIKE EVERY DAY, WE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE FORCES BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE RIVER IN PREPARARTION FOR ESTABLISHING A LONG-TERM BRIDGE IN THIS AREA AND THE HOPE IS THAT WE WILL LEARN A LOT OF THE HYDRAULICS OF THE RIVER AND ABOUT HOW WE PERMANENTLY INSTALL A BRIDGE HERE. WE ARE GOING VERY DELIBERATELY, VERY CAUTIOUSLY AND VERY SAFELY. WE WANT TO NOT ONLY PROTECT OUR FORCES. WE ALSO WANT TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS OF THIS REGION." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: ZUPANJA, CROATIA
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- Country: Croatia
- Reuters ID: LVADMQ13TCZ77JX0GDJWY9M78R2O
- Story Text: United States (U.S.) troops on Tyesday (December 26) worked in the mud at Zupanja, Croatia, to construct a pontoon bridge over the River Sava, which forms a border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina U.S. army engineers in Zupanja said they expected the pontoon bridge to be in place by December 28 or 29, when the main force of the 20,000-strong U.S. contingent in the NATO-led peace implementation force, IFOR, will cross into Bosnia.
The United States is sending 20,000 troops to Bosnia, the largest contingent of the 60,000-strong NATO-led force policing the Bosnia peace treaty agreed in Dayton, Ohio last month.
IFOR's American Sector in Bosnia is under the command of U.S.
1st Armoured Division General William Nash.
Comander of IFOR ground troops General Michael Walker, who is the second in command to Commander of NATO's Implementation Force (IFOR) Admiral Leighton Smith said he was pleased with progress in construction of the bridge.
U.S. IFOR troop comander General Patrick O'Neal said his troops wanted to consider and help local people in the area where the bridge was being built.
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