#Koevoet patrol taken near #Rundu in the Kavango region of South West Africa/Namibia 30/08/1988.

A highly effective but highly controversial paramilitary Police force, Koevoet (meaning “crow bar”) abbreviated Operation K or SWAPOL- COIN (South West African Police Counter Insurgency) was a major paramilitary organisation under South Afr…Read More

#Koevoet in Ovamboland #Casspir

#Koevoet aka Crowbar, South Africa’s former CT and border police unit. Team Zulu Foxtrot achieved 100 kills for no loss in 1981 #Casspir

#Koevoet #Casspir

Ian Richardson (RIP) A #Koevoet legend in his own right. Being treated by his team, ZN ops medic.

A #Koevoet #Casspir falls victim to a SWAPO/PLAN land mine in SW Africa

5 Oct 1982 – The Officer Commanding #Ondangwa Air Force base – Colonel De Villiers pours champagne on the head of Cobus Toerien in a South African Air Force tradition to celebrate an air combat “kill”.

This ceremony was to celebrate the shooting down of Mig-21 by Major Johan Rankin on the same day, Kobus Toerien was Rankin’s wing man in the en…Read More

20 Feb 1988: 72302342PM Major Edward Richard Every from 1 Squadron was Killed in action when his Mirage F1AZ, Serial 245 was shot down by a Soviet #SA-13 Gopher Surface-to-Air Missile at Cuatir near Menongue while on an operational sortie over Southern Angola. The aircraft crashed in flames and disintegrated on impact with the ground. He has no…Read More

#Hurricane MKII 1 Squadron #WW2