Significant1962 – 1963 · 1 year

Operation Grandslam

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Elisabethville · Kolwezi

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Final UN offensive that ended the Katangese secession by capturing Elisabethville, Jadotville and Kolwezi.

Belligerents2

United Nations
Katanga

Conflict graph

PART OFCongo Crisis

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Grandslam (1962 – 1963). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-grandslam · Sources & methodology