5th February
Up on super sanger at 0900, ‘BANG’, in C Company’s AO, a massive single explosion, then a massive fire fight. Then we saw a MERT coming in, not good.
At 1900 we got a brief that Sgt Mjr Beckett, sat on a pressure release IED, then he went to move off and…….he wouldn’t have known anything after that. They found his weapon 150m further south in a tree. Fuck me that’s horrid, I feel for his family back home, getting the worst news ever.
John Paul Getty III dies age 54.
The first 'genetically modified' foods go on sale in the UK - a tomato puree with no 'rotting' gene.
A mortar bomb explodes in the main market square in Sarajevo killing 68 and wounding 200 people.
The last Soviet troops leave Kabul.
Pioneering budget airliner Laker Airways collapses owing £270 million to banks and other creditors
The 19-year-old daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her home in California.
Another trawler from Hull sinks off the coast of Iceland, with all hands on board - the third in three weeks.
The South Vietnamese government requests that Washington double U.S. Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG-Vietnam) strength from 342 to 685.
A decade of wartime sweet rationing ends in Britain, sparking a scramble for toffee apples and nougat.
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith, joined forces to create their own film studio, which they called the United Artists Corporation.
King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the African state of Congo as a personal colonial possession.
A magnitude 7.5 - 8 Earthquake devastates southern Italy.
This is the real diary of a soldier who fought on the frontline in Afghanistan. In his own words, Pte.C.Burtenshaw 3011 6964 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, writes a brutally honest account of his experiences, not just as his therapy, but for his children.
The Diary Of My Afghanistan Tour 2010/2011, portrays the human element of the Afghanistan conflict to help those back home understand, that ‘as much as we love of our jobs and being out here, we are all of us, still human.’
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