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Technical Adviser, Exército de Libertação de Portugal. Jean "Black Jack" Schramme (25 March 1929 – 14 December 1988) was a Belgian mercenary and planter. He managed a vast estate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1967.
Wherever they have operated in the Congo, they are known as "the white giants." But for all their fierce reputation, Colonel Jean ("Black Jack") Schramme and his band of white...
3 days ago · Led by a Belgian settler named Jean Schramme and including approximately 100 former Katanga gendarmes and about 1,000 Katangese, the mutineers held their ground against the 32,000-man Congolese National Army (Armée Nationale Congolaise; ANC) until November 1967, when the mercenaries crossed the border into Rwanda and surrendered to the local ...
Moreover, the rebel commander, Major Jean Schramme, is not a soldier; he is a Belgian plantation owner who has lived in the Congo for 23 of his 36 years. But last week it was “Black Jack”...
Moïse Tshombe, former secessionist leader of Katanga and now newly installed Prime Minister, hired mercenaries to lead the army in putting down the Simbas. These mercenaries included “Mad Mike” Hoare, Robert Denard and Jean Schramme, a Belgian plantation owner who had lived 23 years in the Congo.
Oct 20, 2020 · On July 5, 1967, 10 Commando African National Council (ANC) under the command of Major Jean Black Jack Schramme launched spectacular lightning strikes on the Congo cities of Stanleyville, Kindu and Bukavu. The Belgian mercenary designated himself to taking Stanleyville.
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Led by a Frenchman, Col. Bob Denard, and a Belgian, Maj. Jean Schramme, they decided to plunge into action much sooner than planned. At dawn on July 5, six days after the kidnaping, the mercenaries rebelled in Kisangani (the former Stanleyville), Bukavu and Kindu in the eastern Congo.
