File:Wounded Swedish ONUC soldier.jpg

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DescriptionWounded Swedish ONUC soldier.jpg
English: Original description at the Department of Military History, Swedish Armed Forces Staff College:

"At Battalion X, a train escort from the 2nd Company, January 1961. En route from Elisabethville to Kamina, the escort was subjected to repeated ambushes by Baluba fighters. The railway tracks had been torn up and the power lines dismantled in several locations. During the first ambush — one kilometer south of Bukama on the morning of Sunday, 15 January — two Swedish majors (Kurt Skoog and Eric Bonde) were wounded, and one Belgian was killed. Later that day, a conscript (Lennart Lundgren) was also injured. An unknown number of Baluba fighters were killed or wounded. The escort continued from Luena on 17 January but had to return after an ambush by approximately 600 Balubas. The Swedes then dug in and prepared for defense.

The photo was taken during the firefight. On the stretcher is Major Skoog, wounded by gunfire."
Svenska: Originalbeskrivning vid Militärhistoriska avdelningen, Militärhögskolan:

"Vid bat X tågeskort ur 2.komp jan 1961. Från Elisabethville mot Kamina utsattes eskorten för upprepade överfall av balubas. Rälsen hade brutits upp och elledningarna rivits ned på flera platser. Vid första överfallet - en km söder om Bukama på söndagsmorgonen 15/1 - skadades två svenska majorer (Kurt Skoog och Eric Bonde) och dödades en belgier. Senare under dagen skadades en vpl (Lennart Lundgren). Okänt antal balubas dödades el sårades. Från Luena fortsatte eskorten 17/1 men måste efter ett överfall av c:a 600 balubas återvända till Luena där svenskarna grävde ner sig för försvar.

Bilden tagen just vid eldöverfallet. På båren skottskadade major Skoog."
Date Taken on 15 January 1961
Source Department of Military History, Swedish Armed Forces Staff College. Published here, among others: Dagens Nyheter on 21 January 1961 (see here page 123) and in Populär Historia (see here on 21 March 2018)
Author Gert Gustavsson, battalion photographer

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