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A Portuguese Air Force F-84 Thunderjet being loaded with ordnance in the 1960s, at Luanda Air Base.
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CLASSIC !!!!!!! A Beer Ticket issued to SADF troops – you got 2 a night
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Impala MkII firing a salvo of rockets
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A group of BCAÇ 17 Trackers somewhere in the Tete District
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Dornier Do-27 delivering mail in Mozambique
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Founder and first commanding officer of the Grupos Especiais Pára-quedistas, Colonel Costa Campos wearing the red beret of the GEP, sitting alongside the Commander in Chief of forces in Mozambique, General Kau?lza de Arriaga in an Alouette III helicopter.
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Bare-chested, First Lieutenant Pereira Bastos, commander of the 8th Special Fusiliers
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There is a lot to be said for the SAAF Alouette III gunship pilots, skill and a real sense of on edge flying would be an understatement. Here a SAAF Alouette flies up close and personal to a moving SADF “Buffel” APC (Armoured Personnel Carrier) somewhere during the Border War.
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
President and Supreme Commander of UNITA
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi - 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA). # UNITA waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974, then confronted the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002.