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I recently received a behind-the-scenes look at the Canadian War Museum’s storage facilities/vaults as specialists there prepare for reworking exhibit areas at the museum.

The concluding area of Gallery 4: From the Cold War to the Presentis being redeveloped to explore Canadian involvement in operations in the Gulf War, Somalia, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. New artifacts, eyewitness testimonies and artwork connected to individual stories will highlight how these missions have affected Canada and the world, according to war museum officials.

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The updates to Gallery 4 will be ready in September but for now a specific opening date has yet to be set.

In the meantime, I’ve been publishing a number of photos I took of the new exhibits that are to be displayed.

Today Defence Watch features the photo of the melted controls from a Canadian Forces Chinook forced down in Afghanistan. This item was donated by Captain William Fielding, MMV. They are all that remains of the flight controls of Fielding’s CH-147D Chinook that caught fire and was forced to land as a result of Taliban fire in Kandahar. Fielding’s photographs and oral history are featured in the display. More information can be found here: http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1787&context=cmh