The True Story of the Heroic Battle That Inspired the New Netflix Film The Siege of Jadotville

A small group of Irish soldiers went on a routine mission but soon found themselves under attack by a much more powerful force. Noel Carey remembers the mortars screaming in over his head and then the ear-splitting crash as they hit the ground and exploded. “I nearly sh-t myself,” he says. “We knew there and then that these guys were trying to kill every last one of us.” John Gorman recalls sitting in a trench while a chaplain gave him the last rites. “That’s what he thought of our chances. It was scary, I thought this is it,” he adds.

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