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Angolan / South African Border War

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  • Here is a never before published photograph taken from the cockpit of a SAAF Puma Helicopter airlifting Paratrooper Fire-Force troops into action during the Border War.

  • South African rapid response unit is debused from a South African Air Force Puma helicopter somewhere on the Angolan and South West African/Namibian Border. Great photo by Peter Marlow

  • Crew of an #Eland 90 armoured car at work freeing their vehicle, after it bogged down in a flooded shona (flood plain) during the annual rainy season in Ovamboland – South West Africa/Namiba.

    Photo acknowledgement : Chris van der Walt,

  • On the 27th June 1988, a combined Angolan FAPLA-Cuban force launched an unexpected ground attack against the #Calueque Water Scheme SADF positions, close to the South West Africa/Namibia and Angola border. This was followed shortly thereafter by a treacherous air attack with MiG fighters.

    The ground attack was halted by a combined SADF and…Read More

  • This rather surreal and dark image of a enemy Angolan #Hind Helicopter operated by FAPLA taking off in Angola during the Border War in the late 1980’s.

  • Famous image by Herman Potgieter of a South African Air Force DC 3 Dakota in 1979. An aircraft of World War 2 vintage the DC3 was known as the ‘vomit comet’ by the troops during the Bush War (partly due to low altitude hot air turbulence over Ovamboland). This DC3 is probably on it’s “milk run” ferrying troops and supplies from Grootfontein to…Read More

  • #Casspir call sign 33B, which was captured at the battle of Indungo on Oct 31, 1987 (Operation #Firewood), displayed by Cuban soldiers

  • The knocked out Casspirs of 2nd Lt Anton Botes, at the back, and Lt Pierre Blignaut, in the foreground, at the battle of Indungo on October 31, 1987 during Operation #Firewood

  • South African troopies assault a terrorist position using R4 rifles

  • Troops talking to PB at a kraal in Ovamboland

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The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia, Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990

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