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Elisabethville Congo 1961 Article 2 of 3
The is the second article to cover the deaths of 36 Inf Bn personnel in Elisabethville in Dec 1961. The first article on the deaths of Irishmen during Operation Unokat mentioned the wounding of Sgt Patrick Mulcahy and four men from A Coy 36 Inf Bn by shrapnel from mortar fire that killed Cpl Michael…
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By PRO IUNVAWhen the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was being established in Mar 1978, the Force HQ was set up in Naqoura as a “temporary” HQ, some UN documents refer to it as a Tactical HQ. The military advice at the time was to locate the HQ in the Lebanese Armed Forces barracks…
