"Mac" McElliligot was a Flight Lieutenant with the RAF Regiment and given the job of setting up a Wing Headquarters, Operations, Briefing and Intelligence Unit, in a mobile caravan that was parked in a Nicosia street. "On one occasion, at the request of the Turkish Vice-President, we had to send eight vehicles, drivers and escorts to a remote Turkish village which had been levelled to the ground by Greek elements using tractors and other heavy, armour-plated vehicles," he recalls. "The bodies of those killed were brought back and handed over to the Vice-President in the Turkish part of the walled city."
In the space of just four days, 30,000 Cypriot Turks were forced to flee 103 villages, according to UN reports. "One incident I recall with amusement from those days was when a Greek manager of the Ledra Palace Hotel, where we had moved our Ops, came to me and handed a wad of bills for our accommodation. They totalled £8,000..
"I returned them to him and said: 'We were brought into this conflict at the request of Makarios to aid the civil power - give the bills to him with my compliments. That was the last I heard."
This is just one note from a British soldier. There is more but if yoıu want more I will give you more accounts from other US, UN and British soldiers of what the TCs had to go through and lost - SOMETHİNG YOUR GRANDFATHERS AND TEACHERS AT SCHOOL CONVENİENTLY AVOID TELLING YOU!
