Who doesn’t love a ‘mine hound’? This great image of a SADF dog handler and his dog on operations in Ovamboland, South West Africa/ Namibia. This particular ‘Black Labrador’ is trained to sniff out explosives. Vital in a war so dominated by land mines.

Photo copyright – Peter Marlow

The Border War also saw some pretty famous future personalities and this is one for all the EastEnders fans (the famous on going British soap opera), this fun photo is Alex Ferns during his stint in the South African Army on the Angolan border – Alex is best known for his EastEnders role as Trevor Morgan, “Britain’s most-hated soap…Read More

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#Ongandjera #Koevoet SAP-COIN Base 1985 – Wynand Viljoen

5/ 1 Recce base Fort Rev at AFB Ondangwa taken from a gunship. This is one of the late photos of the Fort, as it is bigger and had taken over some of Koevoet ground

Welcome to Fort Foot – Special Forces base within Rundu Town.

South African Recces (Special Forces), 1987, taken before a large battle in Angola.

Recce operator Andre Diedericks from 5 Recce Regiment with a record breaking 94 kg rucksack during training

SADF Recce team with Puma pilots before deployment into Angola, 1980’s