Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland's Lost Soldier

Download or read book Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland's Lost Soldier written by Ralph Riegel and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interior of the old Ford armoured car stank of sweat, blood and acrid smoke. Pat's eyes desperately struggled to focus in the gloom of the biting cordite fog ...On 15 September 1961, Trooper Patrick Mullins was posted missing after the bloody ambush of an Irish UN convoy in a suburb of Elisabethville in the Katanga province of the Congo. The circumstances of that fateful day have remained shrouded in confusion and contradiction for five decades – until now. Missing in Action reveals for the first time how an ill-equipped and heavily out-gunned Irish soldier fought with astonishing courage against heavily armed and ruthless Katangan gendarmes. Through interviews with the survivors and access to military intelligence sources, the truth about Trooper Mullins' heroic last stand and ultimate fate can now be told.