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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group SWAPO PLAN
SWAPO-PLAN with a B-10 recoilless rifle
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group 32Bn ’Buffalo’
Echo Coy platoon from 32Bn just east of Techamutete during Operation Askari 1984
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group 32Bn ’Buffalo’
Frans Van Staden from 32 Battalion during ops Askari, 1984
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
Soviet instructors training FAPLA troop in Angola
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XO BBHQ posted in the group SWAPO PLAN
Retired Genera Martin Shali far left and retired General Chalse “Ho Chi Minh” Namoloh 2nd from left backrow with Cubans and FAPLA Forces ,1988.
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XO BBHQ posted in the group SWAPO PLAN
from left Peter Nanyemba (then SWAPO’s Secretary Of Defence),Colonel Nikolai Khrushkin of the red Army and military Advisor to PLAN and Uuno ‘Kanana’ Shaanika (then North West Front Commander).
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XO BBHQ posted in the group SWAPO PLAN
PLAN commanders From left: Lt Rtd General Martin Shalli, Commander Nashandi, a Russian Military Advisor and Rtd Major General Charles Ndaxu “Hochi Mihn” Mamholo.
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Koevoet (SWAPOL TIN)
SGT. Dean Viljoen team leader of Koevoet team Zulu Delta with some of his team members having a look at enemy weapons they picked.
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group 31/201 Bn 'Bushmen'
A Coy lines
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
SADF Pathfinder in Angola, mid 1980’s
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
Impala Mk II
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
Soviet military advisor with FAPLA T55 crew in Angola
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| 22 May 1988 Okankolo | SWAPO PLAN 60mm mortar and rifle grenade attack on the base at Okankolo at 23h30, 2 x SADF soldiers wounded. Five mortars hit the base | 38 |
| 22 May 1984 Etengwa | On 22 May 1984 the SADF base at Etengwa was attacked by PLAN insurgents with 50 and 82mm mortars. 2 x PLAN wounded | 42 |
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Not Cuban, but Russian mil advisors to SWAPO (Col Gennady Kireyev, small-arms instructor – standing) and Col Alexander Veres, advisor to PLAN Chief of staff, sitting)