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Missing in Action
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By: John O'Mahony, Ralph Riegel
Publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd
Published: August 2010
Categories: Biography
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781856356947
ISBN: 1856356949

On 15 September 1961, Trooper Patrick Mullins (18) was posted missing after a bloody ambush of an Irish UN convoy in a suburb of Elizabethville in the Katanga province of the Congo. Injured, out-gunned and out-numbered, Tpr Mullins fought with astonishing courage as he desperately tried to save his dying comrade and reach friendly lines. But after a fierce gun-fight from his crippled armoured car, Patrick Mullins was killed and his body taken as spoils of war by the tribal militia supporting the Katangan rebels. When Ireland finally ended its UN mission in the Congo and the last battalion shipped home, Tpr Mullins' body remained buried in an unknown Congolese grave. With the 50th anniversary of his death fast approaching, the Mullins family remain caught in the terrible nightmare of maintaining an empty grave for him at the foothills of the Galtee Mountains. This fascinating book describes Tpr Mullins' story, the struggle to find his body and the difficulties in bringing it home.

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