Warrant Officer Lee Piper takes delivery of 180 armoured Land Rovers at Umm Qasr, Iraq. – Vintage Photograph

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Warrant Officer Lee Piper, 44, of Carterton, England, took delivery of 180 armoured Land Rovers at Umm Qasr, Iraq. The wagons arrived on a chartered roll-on, roll-off ship and drivers worked through the night to bring them ashore and into the base warehouse.Warrant Officer Lee Piper, 44, of Carterton, England, took delivery of 180 armoured Land Rovers at Umm Qasr, Iraq. The wagons arrived on a chartered roll-on, roll-off ship and drivers worked through the night to bring them ashore and into the base warehouse.

Dimensions: 12.2 x 12.2 cm

IMS SKU: SCAN-NQOX-04848836

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File: IRAQ LEZE PIPER WG 5/11/03 Land Rovers arrive in Iraq 25 KK 59 RAF Brize Norton man Lee Piper has been counting them all in as he took delivery of 180 armoured Land Rovers. The 44-year-old warrant officer, who lives in Carterton, is fleet manager at the British logistic base in Umm Qasr, which reopened three months ago after bitter fighting during the recent conflict in Iraq. The wagons were delivered on a chartered roll-on, roll-off ship, and drivers worked through the night to bring them all ashore and into the base warehouse. ARMOURED WIT”