BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: U.S. ARMOURED UNIT BEGINS TO SET UP CAMP IN THE POSAVINO CORRIDOR

Record ID: 347486

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: U.S. ARMOURED UNIT BEGINS TO SET UP CAMP IN THE POSAVINO CORRIDOR
  • Date: 1st January 1996
  • Summary: ZABAR BARA AIRFIELD AND LONCARI, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (JANUARY 1, 1996) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) ZABAR BARA AIRFIELD 1. SV ARMOURED VEHICLES, TROOPS DIRECTING THEM (4 SHOTS) 0.19 2. SV UNITED STATES SOLDIERS SERVING WITH NATO IFOR SETTING UP CAMP (7 SHOTS) 0.47 3. SCU CAPTAIN JAMES J. LOVE SAYING HIS SQUADRON WOULD PROBABLY LEAVE THE AIR
  • Embargoed: 16th January 1996 12:00
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  • Location: ZABAR BARA AIRFIELD AND LONCARI, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVANKRN0WOFGOYOEP1LC1JAYJF1
  • Story Text: A United States (U.S.) armoured unit began to set up camp at an abandoned airfield in the sensitive Posavino corridor on Monday (January 1) as the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia gathered force.

    The armoured unit passed into the corridor after crossing into Bosnia from Croatia via the new pontoon bridge over the Sava River.

    The Posavina corridor is a thin strip of territory linking Serbe-held chunks of land in eastern and northestern Bosnia.

    U.S. army captain James Love said his squadron would make its initial base at the abandoned Zabar Bara airfield, where it would likely remain for one week until other U.S. squadrons can join it.

    But the U.S. soldiers and their Bradley armoured fighting vehicles have not yet received final orders so they do not know where they will be deployed next.

    It is likely that the squadrons will be assigned to patrol the sensitive corridor.

    A column of U.S. troops in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-led Implementation Force (IFOR) rumbled into Bosnia through the corridor near Loncari on Monday.


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