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'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by na grohmití View PostYes, the only resupply that got through (The Heli) had contaminated water and 81mm mortar ammo.'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Flamingo View PostCock-up or Conspiracy?
Contaminated water is sadly easy enough to do, and I don't doubt the 81mm went on the chopper as what was immediately to hand when someone said 'mortars'.
We have ammo bundles that are ready packaged - X quantity of 5.56, Y quantity of 7.62, Z quantity of 40mm grenades etc... This is probably the same thing, with the assumption that when someone said 'mortars' what was meant was 81mm...
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The coy was equipped with 81mm mortars, but they were being used on another op on that occasion. The water was also unfortunate. Jerricans were filled with water, but they had been used for fuel prior to that, and had not been cleaned out.
Just finished Rose Doyle's book myself last week. an excellent read, consisting of diary entries and letters written contemporaneously by Cft. Quinlan.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Under the "what if" heading, if a proper resupply had got through, would they have held out for long enough for the Katanganese forces to fall apart?'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Richie Smyth’s The Siege of Jadotville, the story of the Irish battalion that fought during the 1961 UN intervention in the Congo, is to receive a limited theatrical release in Ireland and Britain from September 19th.
The film was produced for the Netflix streaming service by Parallel Films.
Element Pictures, another Irish distribution and production company, will distribute The Siege of Jadotville in these territories before its Netflix debut on October 7th.At this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, where the movie premiered, Leo Quinlan, the commandant’s son, confirmed that the Government was to issue a unit citation to the Jadotville defenders, more than half a century after the event.
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Originally posted by Flamingo View PostUnder the "what if" heading, if a proper resupply had got through, would they have held out for long enough for the Katanganese forces to fall apart?
The real question remains as to why A Coy were sent to Jadotville in the first place, unaware of Morthor, and unwanted by the well armed local white population it was sent to protect.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Originally posted by Connaught Stranger View PostAn ex-member of "A" Coy on Facebook has said that they never had Vicker's HMG's mounted on land-rovers,
and that the only Vicker's in "A" Coy at Jadotville were ground mounted.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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historically technically inaccurate it may be in some parts - but the publicity a movie like this can garner for the publics opinion of the DF UN role will, imho outweigh these issues... for the likes of those in the know however, we will probably sit and tut about the mistakes.
im reading the book at the minute but didn't know that the chopper crash landed nor that the fouga sustained bullet holes in the underside of the fuselage. (as seen in the trailer)"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
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Originally posted by morpheus View Posthistorically technically inaccurate it may be in some parts - but the publicity a movie like this can garner for the publics opinion of the DF UN role will, imho outweigh these issues... for the likes of those in the know however, we will probably sit and tut about the mistakes.“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Thucydides
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