SUMMARY OF EVENTS IN THE CONGO ON 24 NOV 1964

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 24, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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THE ASSAULT ON STANLEYVILLE THE MORNING OF 24 NOV 64 WAS A CONCERTED
EFFORT BY THE CONGOLESE, BELGIAN AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTS TO RESCUE
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HOSTAGES BEING HELD IN THE REBEL CAPITAL, AND TO
RECAPTURE THE TOWN..
THE OPERATION WAS A 2-PRONGED EFFORT INVOLVING AN AIRDROP OF BELGIAN
PARATROOPERS FROM UNITED STATES FLOWN C-130 TRANSPORTS, AND THE ADVANCE
OF A CONGOLESE ARMY COLUMN FROM THE SOUTH.
AT 5 A.M., 24 NOV 1964, 10 UNITED STATES C-130'S AIRDROPPED ABOUT
320 PARATROOPERS ON THE GOLF COURSE ADJACENT TO AND NORTH OF THE STANLEY-
VILLE AIRFIELD. THESE PARATROOPERS THEN REPORTEDLY CLEARED THE AIRFIELD
OF OBSTACLES PUT THERE BY THE REBELS ENABLING THE PLANES TO LAND ABOUT
280 ADDITIONAL TROOPS. SEVERAL PLANES WERE FIRED UPON BY REBELS AND
DAMAGED SLIGHTLY.
EL REACTION TO THE INVASION WAS SWIFT. WHEN THE FIRST UNITS OF
PARR OOPERS ARRIVED IN THE CITY, REBELS BEGAN ROUNDING UP EUROPEAN AND
AMER AN HOSTAGES. ABOUT 250 OF THEM WERE HERDED INTO WMUMBA SQUARE
AND 4INED UP IN FRONT OF THE MONUMENT TO UJMUMBA. REALIZING THEY WERE
TO BE E)(ECUTED THE HOSTAGES BROKE AND RAN FOR SAFETY. AT THIS POINT
OPENED FIRE UPON THEM WITH MACHINE GUNS, KILLING 15 TO 20 AND
WOUNDING 40. AMONG THOSE KILLED WERE TWO AMERICANS, DR. 'AUL?CARLSON AND
MISS PHYLLIS.RINE, BOTH MISSIONARIES. THAT MORE OF THE HOSTAGES WERE NOT
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KILLED IN THE MASSACRE WAS DUE ONLY TO THE SWIFT ARRIVAL OF THE BE IAN
PARATROOPERS ON THE SCENE. AMONG THOSE WHO ESCAPED WERE THE AMERI
CONSUL, MICHAEL HOYT, AND ATTACHE DONALD PARKE.
ANOTHER INCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE AIRPORT HOTEL (SABENA'GUEST HOUSE)
WHERE APPROXIMATELY 60 HOSTAGES WERE TAKEN BY THE REBELS FOLLOW G THE
PARATROOP DROP. 15 WERE KILLED WHEN REBELS FIRED UPON THE LD G.
APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR AFTER THE AIRDROP A CONGOLESE ONAL
ARMY GROUND UNIT ENTERED STANELYVILL$ FROM THE SOUTH AND JOINED IN THE RES-
CUE OPERATIONS. THIS COLUMN HAD BEEN AMBUSHED IN THE DARKNESS,-RESULTING
IN THE DEATH OF NBC CORRESPONDENT, GEORGE CLAY, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED.
WITH THE RESCUE OPERATIONS COMPLETED, THE PARATROOPERS WITHDREW TO
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THE AIRFIELD DECLARING THAT THEY WOULD NOT GO BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF
STANLEYVILLE TO RESCUE REMAINING HOSTAGES IN THE AREA. CONTROL OVER THE
CITY ITSELF IS IN THE HANDS OF THE CONGOLESE NATIONAL ARMY, AND ONLY SPOR-
ADIC FIGHTING CONTINUED AS OF TUESDAY EVENING (NOVEMBER 24). HOSTAGES
RESCUED AT STANLEYVILLE ARE BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE LOVANIUM UNIVERSITY
HOSPITAL IN LEOPOLDVILLE. BY 6 P.M. TUESDAY APPROXIMATELY 790 HAD BEEN
TRANSPORTED IN 16 OR 17 PLANELOADS. STATISTICS AS OF 10 P.M. LISTED 35
DEAD AND 80 WOUNDED, 11 OF THEM CRITICALLY.
ALSO ON 24 NOVEMBER, IN A MOVE INDEPENDENT FROM THE STANLEYVILLE
OPERATION, CONGOLESE ARMY GROUND FORCES RECAPTURED THE CITY OF AKETI,
APPROXIMATELY 150 NM NORTHWEST OF STANLEYVILLE, FREEING-10 AMERICANS AND
134 BELGIANS. THIS LEAVES 20 AMERICANS UNACCOUNTED FOR IN THE REBEL
AREAL EXACT'-WHEREABOUTS OF THESE AMERICANS ARE UNKNOWN BUT VARIOUS
REPORTS PINPOINT SEVERAL TOWNS WHERE HOSTAGES ARE KNOWN TO BE HELD. THESE
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TOWNS INCLUDE BUNIA, BASOKO, BAFWASENDE, PAULIS, BUTA, AND OPALA.? OUT
'OF CONCERN FOR TH,SAFETY OF THESE HOSTAGES, THE PARATROOPERS HAVE'
UNCED THAT THEY WILL REMAIN IN STANLEYVILLE FOR SOME TIME.
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