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"Golf Five Zero watchtower. Crossmaglen, South Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK.

 

A military building forming part of the British Army's defensive strategy to control the landscape and people of Northern Ireland and known to the British army as 'Borucki Sanger', after Private James R Borucki, 19, 3 Para, was killed here by a 5lb remote controlled bomb left on a bicycle.

 

Operation Rectify, the rebuilding of Crossmaglen security force base beginning in April 1994, involved the largest British air-mobile operation since D-Day. More than a thousand troops descended on the town, 1400 tonnes of building supplies were moved by the Royal Logistics Corps in huge vehicle convoys along secured routes; another 30 tonnes of equipment were moved by air. The work on the base was carried out by 180 Royal Engineers using 39 pieces of heavy plant, including seven cranes which were double crewed to enable the work to continue 24 hours a day. There were five IRA attacks within the 10 weeks it took to rebuild the base; on one occasion a sapper was injured by a mortar bomb but work was underway again within two hours."

 

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Mountpottinger Road RUC station, Belfast,Co.Down, Northern Ireland, UK.

 

The Saracen factory.

 

'We would go out on patrol and the kids would throw paint bombs at us, so to defeat them we had guys painting the Saracen armoured vehicles 24 hours a day. So the locals upon seeing the freshly painted vehicles assumed that we were manufacturing new ones and the barracks became known as the Saracen factory.'

 

Captain Royal Logistics Corps, British Army."

 

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"RUC station. Strabane, Co.Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK.

 

Military building forming part of the British Army's defensive strategy to control the landscape and people of Northern Ireland. "

 

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"Newtownhamilton Barracks. Newtownhamilton, South Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK."

 

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"Magilligan Ranges, Magilligan Point, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK."

 

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"French WWI trench, The 'Forbidden Zone', Bois-Hauts, Les Eparges, Lorraine, France. Summer 2008. Photograph by Jonathan Olley

 

The 'Forbidden Zone', where the land undulates with bisecting shell craters. The mature beech and pine forests that cover the hills above the city of Verdun are home to some of the Great War's most bitter fighting, as many as 150 shells fell for every square meter of this battlefield. 'The Battle of Verdun' as well as being the longest Battle of 'The Great War' also has the ignominy of being the first test of modern industrialised slaughter. Not for nothing was the battlefield of Verdun known to the soldiers who fought in it, as 'The Mincer', where over the entire period of the war almost a million men became casualties. Recent estimates made by The French interior Ministry state at least 12 million unexploded shells lie undiscovered in the hills overlooking the City of Verdun.

 

The d'mineurs work in the areas designated 'Zone-Rouge' after the Armistice of 1918. Today the forest still remains out-of-bounds to the general public due to the continuing hazzard of the explosive remnants of war. The Department for the Interior, (France), estimate that there are twelve million unexploded shells from WWI, in the Verdun sector alone."

 

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