I saw them loading these Jeeps and armoured trucks into the belly of the plane and I said to myself, “How in God’s name is this going to get off the ground?” But eventually we did.The ordinary population out there would have been fairly ok but it was the mercenaries and their friends in the gendarmerie that were the problem. Our company commander put two and two together, we went over to the garage, took them out of there and we took over the garage.You don’t know who’s who out there but he was a mercenary who was in the right place. Now we were out in the open and so were their lads. He was a star.We also had great mortar men. They turned their trucks around and got out of there damn quick but then a couple of hours later all hell broke loose.The thing was there was a garage across the road from us and the man who was running it was a mercenary. Surely its not too much to stand up and apologise after all of this? I think it was Dag Hammarskjöld who read a few things that O’Brien had written and he nominated him for the job. For want of a better word they’re dead now and they should realise that.All About History is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. We were all just young lads and it was all really new to us in a huge way. We went to the Congo with Lee Enfield .303 rifles and issued with the FNs out there.

It was as much to say, “Well if you don’t agree to this ceasefire and something happens here in Elisabethville you’ll be to blame.”So he did agree and ceasefire arrangements were drawn up. The UN leadership depicted in the film state repeatedly that the Russians are involved and to escalate the battle would invite World War 3. If I do something wrong to somebody I will go and apologise and that’s the manly thing to do. To a certain degree we did sort it out but I think there is as much trouble out there today as there was then.I did take pride in it but we went out in really heavy Irish Army uniforms from WWII. But then, is there a man in the government or in charge of the events?

He was very, very good on the mortars, absolutely brilliant.Everything fitted into place. He could tell them everything that we were doing except for the digging of the trenches because we dug them at night. They were always very wary of him.We felt safe enough I suppose but during our handover they brought us down to this little village where there were only women and children. As you can imagine the mercenaries restrained the gendarmerie pretty well because they were top soldiers otherwise they wouldn’t have been out there.There were a few operations carried out before we went to Jadotville. I didn’t get out there until June 1961.I was 17 years old at the time and knew absolutely nothing.

A lot of us left the army, including myself. However, since the early 2000’s the siege has become recognised as one of the most wrongfully forgotten battles in Irish and UN military history and surviving veterans have now been belatedly honoured. You’re never going to get anywhere with this Jadotville thing because it was so tightly covered up.” I said, “Well, maybe not but you’ll find that John Gorman will sort it out.” And I did, I did get places thank God.That was all thanks to one government minister who was the minister of defence here in Ireland-Willie O’Dea. Today, largely thanks to his efforts, the siege is now recognised as one of the most heroic and wrongfully forgotten stories in Irish military history.Gorman’s campaign to hold an enquiry into the battle led to Commandant Pat Quinlan and his men being cleared of any soldierly misconduct in 2004. They’re on the run now.There was a lot done before the 2016 film but I would say that the film brought it out more even though we had the monument in the barracks and the scrolls, indication and recognition etc. They were all taken into barracks and trained by the mercenaries and, who knows, maybe they didn’t want to be fighting but I don’t know, no one will ever know that.I suppose we can count ourselves as lucky, it ended up good in a lot of ways and it taught a lot of us good lessons.

Between 13-17 September 1961,156 members of ‘A’ Company, 35Thanks to the brilliant leadership of Commandant Patrick “Pat” Quinlan, A Company’s attackers suffered 300-400 killed and around 1,000 wounded. Father Fagan was our chaplain and he was saying Mass.

The term "Jadotville Jack" was sometimes applied as a term of derision about the Irish Defence Forces. When he saw what was happening he jumped into the Vickers machine gun trench and he fired three or four bursts over their heads.

The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 action-war film directed by Richie Smyth and written by Kevin Brodbin.

The operation went very well and we then took the airport in Elisabethville. In 2016, A Company, 35th Battalion were awarded a Presidential Unit Citation by the Irish government and the siege was dramatised by Netflix in a feature film called In the first of three interviews with surviving Irish UN veterans of Jadotville, Gorman spoke to I joined the army on 22 June 1959 and went into my recruit training, which would have lasted about six months. Whether they thought we were the elite company or that they were trying to walk us into it I don’t know but we were involved in every single thing.We were dug in around the airport in Elisabethville and two companies had gone into Jadotville: a Swedish company and the Irish B Company. All of his family play Gaelic football now and they are Irishmen! It carried the Jadotville-to-Elisabethville Highway across the "A" Company, 35th Battalion, suffered five wounded in action during the siege.At one stage in the conflict a mission to bring in water by air was successful, but due to the use of contaminated containers (previously used to store petrol) the water was largely undrinkable.

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