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United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

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A Permanent Committee for Defence delegation visits Dutchbatt in mid-April 1981. Member of Parliament J.F. Wolff (CPN, the Netherlands Communist Party) looks through the command periscope at the ‘Iron Triangle’. To the left, Captain A. Menken, commander of the tank support company, and to the right Max van der Stoel (PvdA, Dutch Labour Party) and Parliamentary Clerk F.L.M.M. de Gou.
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The accommodation of Dutchbatt’s post 7-9 in the central part of the Dutch UNIFIL sector.
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The first Dutch UNIFIL volunteers are vaccinated at the 'Adolf van Nassau’ Barracks in Zuidlaren, Netherlands, at the end of January 1979.
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An YP 408 armoured vehicle, equipped with a50 machine gun, on patrol at post 7-19. The inhospitable terrain meant that parts of Dutchbatt’s sector could only be patrolled on foot.
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Dutch Minister of Defence Job de Ruiter is briefed on the battlefield surveillance radar, designed to pick up any infiltrations into the Dutchbatt sector (January 1983).
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The UNIFIL commander, Major General E.A. Erskine, visiting a Dutchbatt 120mm mortar position on 28 March 1979.
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Dutchbatt personnel and Lebanese government soldiers check IDs at post 7-16 to the northeast of the battalion headquarters in Haris. In the top-left corner the emblem of 44 Armoured Infantry Battalion, a horse salient (rearing).
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Force commander Major General E.A. Erskine welcomes the first Dutch UNIFIL detachment at Beirut airport, accompanied by scores of Dutch media representatives. On the far left (with glasses) Ambassador A.H. Croin; to the right of Erskine, battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel E.H. Lensink.
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June 1982: Operation Peace for Galilee. Israeli M-48 tanks move into southern Lebanon without taking much heed of the UNIFIL forces.
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