The United Nations Emergency Force was a military and peacekeeping operation established by the United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis of 1956 through the establishment of
UNEF soldiers from the Yugoslav People's Army in Sinai, January 1957
F/L Lynn Garrison crew with UNEF DHC-3 Otter, Sinai, 1962
Swedish peacekeepers evacuating their position at Hill 88 during the Six-Day War
UNEF postage stamp
Dag Hammarskjöld
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1
United Nations Emergency Force
…Israel. Approved by Resolution 1001 (ES-I) of 7 November 1956, the UNEF was developed in large measure as a result of efforts by UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld and a proposal from Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, who would later win the Nobel Peace Prize for it. UNEF was deployed along…
Hammarskjöld in the 1950s
Hammarskjöld's birthplace in Jönköping
Hammarskjöld (age 48) outside the UN headquarters in New York City, 1953
Hammarskjöld's grave in Uppsala