Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

The following are a series of war correspondence films from the Simba Rebellion in the Congo in 1964/65 set to the tune of “Roland the Thompson Gunner“ by Warren Zevon. The film features a platoon of mercenaries from Europe conducting a platoon attack on the town of Boende in the Cong. The mercenaries primarily come from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Of note there is an ex-ss officer in the film according to the source, I can’t confirm this though. EDIT: The German officer is Siegfried Müller, one of the mercenary captains. He was a Wehrmacht First Lieutenant in World War 2, not an SS officer. It features some brutal combat and the summary execution of a rebel so it is NSFW. Background knowledge on the clip: 0:00 - 0:48: Belgium paratroopers walking through the aftermath of the Stanleyville massacre. Whites and Congolese alike were shot dead by the rebels. They primarily targeted Christians. 0:48 - 2:40: 40 American-supplied European mercenaries conduc