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The 81 mm Mortar Pit at #Rundu. The sand had the same composition as beach sand, requiring the sides of the pit to be secured with sandbags. Note the numbered ‘rigtings palings’ (directional poles). These allowed the ‘Number 1s’ on the gun to bring the weapon quickly into action and to fire on predetermined targets
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The ‘Aapkas’ tower and below it – our water source. #Rundu, Kavangoland, 1985
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A ball-point drawing of the entrance-way to the ‘Crazy Horse Saloon’ bunker, #Rundu, Kavangoland, 4 January 1985
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Portuguese Dornier #Do-27 at #Macaloge airport, Macaloge, Niassa Province, #Mozambique armed with two 37 mm rocket launchers
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Portuguese Paratroopers loading onto #Noratlas, #Mozambique
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Portuguese Air Force FIAT #G-91 R/4 frontline at #Guinea-Bissau in 1966. 121st ‘Tiger’ Squadron
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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.