Word: kolwezi
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Atom Smashing. But the planes also had their lethal uses. Out of the blue one morning, the Swedish Saabs showed up with guns blazing over the copper-mining town of Kolwezi, 150 miles northwest of Elisabethville on Katanga's only rail line to the Atlantic Ocean. Within minutes, half a dozen railway locomotives and cars were out of action; then, with a roar, the town's main fuel tanks, filled with thousands of gallons of diesel oil, went up in a leaping column of flame and smoke. Near by was the village of Luilu, site...
...dropped three bombs near U.N. troops at the airport. Next morning all 15 of the U.N.'s jets-Indian Canberras, Swedish Saabs and Ethiopian Sabres-were off in search of Katanga's meager air force. The Indian jets found four planes on the ground at nearby Kolwezi and destroyed them all. The air strike was just in time, for some of the Kolwezi planes were loaded with bombs and ready for another counterattack against the U.N. in Elisabethville...