A close-up view of two anti-personnel mines found along the roadside leading up to a chapel located at Grid # BQ663549 in the vicinity of Brkozici during Operation Joint Endeavor. That was the site of a mine strike that killed two HVO soldiers and injured nine locals. The area was investigated by soldiers of Task Force Eagle and was noted as a marked mine field (# 2947). The locals who were injured were filling in trenches and preparing for a mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the church
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR
Base: Brkozici
Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
Scene Camera Operator: SPC Teresa H. Hawkins
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
11/04/1996
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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