Operation Prawn: Attacks on Line of Rail: Barragem to Malvernia: August, 1976   Reconnaissance teams dropped in by free-fall parachuting and by helicopters along the line of rail, confirmed information:to hand that ZANLA were making extensive and ever increasing use of Mozambique Railways to move large numbers of terrorists from Barragem to Mapai, and on […]

This documentary film provides an insight into the Rhodesian Bush War from a soldiers perspective. You’ll hear how the army conducted its patrols and examples of contacts with enemy terrorists.  

How rapidly times alter. As the so-called ‘Winds of Change’ swept through colonial Africa, the process of decolonisation gathered inexorable pace. Rhodesia was a prominent example. In July 1964, it experienced its first terrorist incident when a white farmer was murdered. Relations with the British government worsened the following year over the issue of majority […]