Special Episode | Actions at Elizabethville, Congo, 1961

On this special episode, we speak to Colonel (retd) George Kerton and Colonel (retd) Richard Heaslip about Irish involvement in actions in Elizabethville, Congo, in 1961. This episode focuses specifically on the background to the cessation of the province of Katanga from Congo, the Dilolo Patrol, Operation Rumpunch and Operation Morthar.


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