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[crumbly65]

I watched a rather good exciting film on "Netflix" last night.

 "The Siege of Jadotville" is based on the true story of a contingent of Irish troops sent to Katanga province in the Congo, as part of a UN peace-keeping force.  It was about the time there was civil war in the Congo, tension between the super-powers (nothing new there!), and the death of Dag Hammarskjold, the UN General Secretary of the UN.

Maybe there are forum members who remember those times, as I do.

Lots of Series 2/2A's and Series 1's in the film, so a good watch on these freezing winter nights....... 

[Alan Drover]

.....,the Series 1 that shouldn't have been in Ice Cold in Alex?

[Wittsend]

... and the Morris Minor


 

[Alan Drover]

.......and the Land Rover and Fordson Major tractor that shouldn't have been in The Dambusters.

[Genem]

I watched a rather good exciting film on "Netflix" last night.

 "The Siege of Jadotville" is based on the true story of a contingent of Irish troops sent to Katanga province in the Congo, as part of a UN peace-keeping force.  It was about the time there was civil war in the Congo, tension between the super-powers (nothing new there!), and the death of Dag Hammarskjold, the UN General Secretary of the UN.

Maybe there are forum members who remember those times, as I do.

Lots of Series 2/2A's and Series 1's in the film, so a good watch on these freezing winter nights.......

OT but a relative of my mothers was part of Hammarskjolds security team, killed in the plane crash. Persistent rumours that it was not an accident but who knows. Bullet holes in the wreckage were supposedly due to the security teams guns "cooking off".      The film is not 100% accurate, as you might expect, but well done to the Irish Army Infantry for their stout and heavily outnumbered defence. The Politicians do not come off well, the soldiers involved did not get the recognition they deserved until many years later. ( & coincidentally, an Irish UN soldier was killed last week in Lebanon, another seriously injured...)

[crumbly65]

OT but a relative of my mothers was part of Hammarskjolds security team, killed in the plane crash. Persistent rumours that it was not an accident but who knows. Bullet holes in the wreckage were supposedly due to the security teams guns "cooking off".      The film is not 100% accurate, as you might expect, but well done to the Irish Army Infantry for their stout and heavily outnumbered defence. The Politicians do not come off well, the soldiers involved did not get the recognition they deserved until many years later. ( & coincidentally, an Irish UN soldier was killed last week in Lebanon, another seriously injured...)

Yes - there was just a suggestion in the film that Hammarskjold's plane was shot down.

The Irish Army Infantry had a "Yorke's Drift" moment there I think.  I never knew about the incident at all, think it was very much "hushed up" at the time.  That Unit's courage & resourcefulness were not recognised until 2005, nearly 50 years after