![]() “A” Company did not suffer a single fatality while they inflicted 300 fatalities and 750 injuries on the other side. THE SIEGE OF Jadotville which took place in the Congo in September 1961 found a place in the national psyche in 2016 after the Netflix release of the movie of the same name starring Jamie Dornan.ĭuring the siege, 155 Irish peacekeepers with no battle experience held out for five days against more than 3,000 heavily armed mercenaries and local militias and one Fouga fighter jet which repeatedly strafed the position of the Irish troops from the air. Here, the daughter of one of the survivors reacts to these developments and pays tribute to her dad and his comrades: This week we learned that an expert group has been assembled, consisting of ex-military officers, a historian and an academic to examine the issue of medals for Gallantry for soldiers in the Siege of Jadotville in 1961. ![]()
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