"Siege of Jadotville" Topic
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| Mithmee | 09 Sep 2016 5:28 p.m. PST |
The year is 1961 The place Congo On one side you have around 160 indviduals, Irish & Swedes On the other close 3000+ YouTube link |
bandit86  | 09 Sep 2016 10:32 p.m. PST |
Never heard of it Movie or the battle, will be interesting to see and research it. Thanks for the heads up. |
| Mithmee | 09 Sep 2016 11:45 p.m. PST |
Interesting battle. If the Irish & Swedes had more ammo, food and water they would have crushed that larger force. |
| Terrement | 12 Sep 2016 11:49 a.m. PST |
A combined force of mercenaries, Belgian settlers and local tribesmen attacked the Irish. They had a strength of 3,000 to as many as 5,000 men, mostly bands of Luba warriors but also many regular French, Belgian and Rhodesian mercenaries armed with a mix of light and heavy armament. They also had air support in the form of a Fouga Magister trainer jet fitted with underwing bombs and machine guns. The Irish UN soldiers had, for the most part, only light personal weapons, a small number of largely outdated water-cooled Vickers machine guns, and 60mm mortars. The besieged Irish radioed to their headquarters: "We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey". Sounds genuine. |
| Mithmee | 12 Sep 2016 5:30 p.m. PST |
Looks like those Merc's should have chosen a different line of work since they got their asses kicked bad. |
| Bangorstu | 17 Sep 2016 5:14 a.m. PST |
Or not picked on the Irish. :) The real scandal is what happened after the battle… |
| Bangorstu | 17 Sep 2016 5:15 a.m. PST |
BTW Mitmee – the 160 involved in the battle depicted were all Irish. The Swedes (and more Irish) tried to break through to them and failed IIRC. |
| macconermaoile | 03 Oct 2016 3:46 a.m. PST |
Saw the movie, overall very good. As in many films the ordinary soldiers were depicted as cardboard characters. The acting was good, but the scripts were poor.
For the most important bit, the action. Weapons were auntentic and they did not do the usual Hollywood thing of having loads of flames in every explosion.Tactics by the attackers looked very inept, but based on what occurred it must have been that way in reality.
I repeat overall very good. |
| Mithmee | 03 Oct 2016 9:23 p.m. PST |
Most were mostly untrained native soldiers. |
| haywire | 23 Jan 2017 6:56 p.m. PST |
Just watched this on Netflix. Highly recommend. Not sure how much is true or to the book. Alamo/Zulu type action. Men fortified in a defense position cut off from all help. I never knew about the incident before and now I need to go buy the book. |
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