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Operation Joint Endeavour was the deployment U.S. and other nations forces of IFOR in Bosnia beginning in December 1995. After a year IFOR was replaced by the "Stabilisation Force", SFOR . US CONTRIBUTION Task Force Eagle, comprised of 20,000 American soldiers, implemented the military elements of the Dayton Peace Accords in support of Operation Joint Endeavor. This operation marked the first commitment of forces in a wartime environment in NATO 's history. In the first three months of operations, the United States Air Force flew 3,000 missions, carried more than 15,600 troops and delivered more than 30,100 Short Tons of cargo. These statistics reflect the presence of the C-17 transport aircraft, which was systematically employed in a major contingency for the first time. The limited airfield at Tuzla was the major port of debarkation in Bosnia-Herzegovina . During the first critical month of operations, C-17s flew slightly more than 20 percent of the missions into Tuzla and delivered more than 50 percent of the cargo. The US Army 1st Armored Division constituted the bulk of the ground forces for Task Force Eagle. On December 18, 1995, under the command of Major General William L. Nash , the 1st Armored Division deployed to northeast Bosnia as the command element of Task Force Eagle, a powerful, multinational unit intended to keep the peace. A Russian brigade, initially under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov], was part of the Task Force Eagle] effort. An account of the interactions of the Americans and Russians in Bosnia in 1996 may be found in James Nelson’s Bosnia Journal. The 1AD 2d Brigade led by Col John Batiste constituted the southern flank of the US sector based in Camp Lisa located about 20 km east of Kladanj. Task Force 2-68 Armor based in Baumholder, Germany (later re-flagged to 1-35 AR) was based in Camp Linda, outside of Olovo . This was the Southern boundary of the US Sector. The 1AD returned in late 1996 to Germany. UK CONTRIBUTION The British IFOR contingent was part of "Multi-National Division South West" headquartered in Banja Luka . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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