4 Recce operators and Honoris Crux recipients J.J Potgieter & M. Christie Gavin

South African #Recce troops on the Quito river at a place called Mapupa, trying to recover an Angolan PT-76 during Operation Protea in 1981. They eventually destroyed it

South African Recce attack diver

Early photo of South Africa’s 4 Recce, today 4 SF Regiment, responsible for training and providing attack divers to the defence force

4 Recce Special Forces Divers

SADF Recce special forces operators from 1RR, Angola 1980’s
L to R: S Sgt. Almerindo Mourao da Costa, Hannes Venter and Lieb Liebenberg. Photo by Alexander Strachan

SADF SF Recce: Neves Matias during Operation Barrage, 1983