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Description: | Sign showing Warsaw Pact vehicle silhouettes from the aircraft decontamination area at the end of runway 07 (south side). The Warsaw Pact was the alliance between the Soviet Union and several other Eastern European Countries that arose after the Second World War. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ((NATO) US, Britain and several other countries) formed in response to this and hence the Cold War began; a period of heavy armament on both sides with the threat of nuclear war. | Subjects: | Sign Airfield Military | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | Ferguson, Aldon P | Identifier: | http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.u... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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