Baledogle Airfield
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Baledogle Airfield, also called Wanlaweyn Airstrip, is the largest military air base in Somalia, about 90 kilometers northwest of the capital, Mogadishu. The airfield was constructed in the 1970s for
US forces with a CH-46E Sea Knight deploying to Baledogle on 13 December 1992
View of U.S. aircraft making an approach on the runway in 1992
Graffiti on the base walls left behind by Al-Shabaab fighters
Somali National Alliance
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The Somali National Alliance was a major politico-military faction formed on 16 June 1992 by four different rebel groups that had been in opposition to the regime of former president Mohamed Siad Barr
A UNOSOM II propaganda leaflet depicting a Somali National Alliance fist crushing a dove that spells "PEACE" in Somali