I'd forgotten this 'small war' in the Congo, in October 1961, but a hitherto unknown website has the story how an Irish infantry company held off an attack for a week without any deaths. The attackers outnumbered them, had better weapons and more. The Irish had engineers, leaders and dug trenches.
There is a new Netflix's film being released, there is a short trailer and a twenty minute audio with a veteran who wrote the book.
Link:http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.co.uk/...#disqus_thread
One of the comments has several links to an official review and background to an ambush in 1960, such as this reminder:Link to Irish Army article pgs.9-23, on the bloody ambush, not the siege:http://www.military.ie/fileadmin/use...eview_2010.pdfDuring the course of the mission from 1960 until 1964, over 6,000 Irish troops participated and 26 soldiers died
Today the UN is still in the Congo, now the DRC and current UN peacekeeping has a thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=8209
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