Next morning all 15 of the U.N.’s jets—Indian Canberras, Swedish Saabs and Ethiopian Sabres—were off in search of Katanga’s meager air force. The Indian jets found four planes on the ...

Here and there local commanders of the Congo’s restive Force Publique ... happily went on the air with an announcement that U.N. troops would move into Katanga at week’s end.

D.R. Tharp reached out to me a while back regarding a book he was working on, Task Force Intrepid: The Gold of Katanga. As it turned out, we both write military fiction and we were both ...