Significant1964

Operation Dragon Rouge

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Stanleyville

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Belgian paratrooper rescue operation airlifted by the United States that freed European hostages from Simba-held Stanleyville.

Belligerents3

Belgium
United States
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Dragon Rouge (1964). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-dragon-rouge · Sources & methodology