Saut sur Kolwezi | Battle of Kolwezi

🔠 French texts are translated in English, activate your subtitles (mine, not YouTube automatic)! ✉️ Briefing: Believe it or not, but France is the nation which conducted most of airborne operations: from Indochina to the Algeria and Suez Crises, paratroopers were an essential part of French Cold War tactics, and and their use was well mastered. In May 1978, the city of Kolwezi and its inhabitants, including many Europeans, were taken hostage by FLNC forces. A coalition composed of French, Belgian and Zairian forces was quickly formed to reconquer the city. Belgian forces being disorganized to the point of being delayed, the French 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes (2nd foreign paratrooper regiment) led the initial airborne assault on the morning of May 18th, closely followed by the 311th Zairian Paratrooper Battalion. Belgian elements finally arrived during the afternoon. Within two days, the entire city was under Coalition control, and 2,800 Europeans were secured and evacuated on 21 May. French and Belgian units were relieved by an Inter-African Force led by 1,500 soldiers from Morocco, Senegal, Togo, and Gabon. The operation was a complete success with “few“ losses for the coalition and was a prime example of the efficiency and effectiveness of light infantry when used with the element of surprise and with good intelligence and logistics. 💽 Song (not available for sale, YouTube only): DANCE WITH THE DEAD - PAINT IT BLACK (remix) ⭐ My Discord server : 📸 Instagram: 🌟 #mauzerwave Discord base: ⚠️ Copyrights: Except the video editing (mean the cuts and layout), I don't own any rights about the content used here to make this video. The original rights obviously belong to their respecting owners and if the following video edit is a problem, they can contact me in order to remove this video. Also, be aware of two points: - except contrary indication, I always own a paid-by-myself copy of both video and audio sources, acquired legally ; - my content (again, video edits) is made for entertainment purpose and is/will never be monetized: I will never -try- to make money with it ;