Field Coverage

Finnish Troops on Duty along the Demarcation Line

1 July 1957

UNEF contingents continue to be deployed along the Armistice Demarcation
Line in the Gaza Strip and in the Sinai Desert. Troops from the ten nations which make up the United Nations Emergency Force first began to arrive in Egypt in November 1956. Today, they number some 6,000 officers and men.
A sentry on duty at a Platoon Headquarters of the Finnish Company.

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