Generic filters
Search in title
Search in content
Filter by Custom Post Type
Select all
Posts
Pages
Aircraft
Conflicts
People
Weapons
Vehicles
Products
Books
Post Timelines
Filter by content type
Custom post types
Users
BuddyPress content
  • Profile picture of maddogmcewan

    maddogmcewan posted in the group Angolan / South African Border War

    • 1 year, 1 month ago

    32 Battalion – controversial to this day – yes, but the fact still remains – it is considered to be one of the best fighting battalions the South African Army has ever fielded in battle and of that there is no doubt. This powerful and iconic image of Peter Williams from 32 Battalion is testament to it’s fighting nature.

    32 Battalion was pivotal to the SADF successes during the Border War, but it came at a massive cost. Today 21 May is known in 32 Battalion and veteran circles as ‘Savate Day’ and known as such as the Battalion experienced it’s greatest loss on this day.

    21 May 1980: A very sad day for 32 Battalion when 15 of their members were Killed in Action during heavy close-quarter fighting against a vastly numerically superior force of FAPLA and SWAPO troops in order to successfully neutralise an enemy base complex at Savate in Southern Angola during Operation Tiro a Tiro. Despite being heavily outnumbered by the enemy, this 32 Battalion element accounted for nearly 600 enemy troops killed with many more wounded and captured. This Operation was launched in support of UNITA Forces.

    The 32 Battalion casualties were:

    67280552PE Captain Andre Erasmus. He was 28
    72419369PE Lieutenant Charl de Jongh Muller. He was 23
    77316404BG 2/Lieutenant Timothy Simmons Patrick. He was 18
    76490556BG 2/Lieutenant Johannes Mattheus Heyns Muller. He was 19
    76487503PF Corporal Eduard Coetzee Engelbrecht. He was 19
    80016520PP Lance Corporal Andrew Jeremy Falkus. He was 20
    76910528SP Lance Corporal Joao Kaumba. He was 21
    76919099SP Rifleman Rodrigues Alberto. He was 27
    76908029SP Rifleman Benedito Albino. He was 25
    76907641SP Rifleman Sebastiao Angelo. He was 22
    77880912SP Rifleman Manuel Augusto. He was 26
    79830965SP Rifleman Antonio Caliango. He was 31
    76926674SP Rifleman Abel Livingue. He was 23
    7692666SP Rifleman Casto Marcelino. He was 24
    76910611SP Rifleman Joaquim Matamba. He was 22

    Profile Photo liked this

Friends

Profile Photo
Rocky Breytenbach
@izak-breytenbach
Profile Photo
Anaconda
@jeff-sorensen
Profile Photo
Lange
@j-h
Profile Photo
zander.labuschagne
@zander-labuschagne
Profile Photo
goNinja-21
@goninja-21

Media

Recent Posts

error: Content is protected !!