Kammala wannan jumla: Sanin yaren Swahili ya ba shi damar taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen tallafawa ayyukan a cikin
Ƙasar Congo. Ya shafe kusan rabin shekara a cikin kalmominsa, "yana yawo a cikin daji tare da Simbas", a lokacin da za a azabtar da shi har ya mutu idan an gano ainihin asalinsa. Lokacin da Simbas suka kama Stanleyville, Lunsford ya tafi gidan da Hanni Portet, Ursula Craig, da Jeffy Craig ke fakewa bayan Sabena Airlines ya kama su kuma ya kare su daga 'yan tawaye. Ya zama babban aboki ga John Oliver da Jacques Portet a sakamakon haka. Shugaba Lyndon Johnson da kansa ya ba shi lambar yabo ta Silver Star (ta uku) don hidimarsa a rikicin Congo.