Angola 70-72 Antonio S.Ramos

Valado dos Frades-1962-63

#Noratlas

#SAAF #Puma‘s

#SAAF Mirage IIICZ #MirageIIICZ

Operation #Savannah: 22-vehicle #Eland-90 armoured car squadron began a 2,400 km 6 day trek from Bloemfontein to #Ondangwa in SW Africa where they would airlifted into the fight in #Angola 9 October 1975

Portuguese fighters with #FNLA guerrillas in northern #Angola. October 23, 1975. Photo: Patrick

Little-known photograph of fighting in northern Angola in 1975. #FNLA forces entering #Caxito on August 8 of that year. Even Fidel Castro’s war machine had not been fully deployed to the rescue of the MPLA with the complicity of the Portuguese authorities.

Typical image of #Cuban convoy in #Angola. Note the #BRDM-52 armored vehicle in the foreground and the surveillance soldiers deployed on both sides of the road, evidently doing their job poorly. In the 80s, Cuban troops only controlled the large cities and had to move during the day in heavily protected caravans to resolve supplies, tactical…Read More