Significant1961

Operation Morthor

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Elisabethville · Jadotville

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

UN ONUC offensive against Katangese gendarmes in Elisabethville that bogged down at Jadotville and led to the death of Secretary-General Hammarskjold.

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 Morthor (1961). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-morthor · Sources & methodology