Selous Scouts 3 Group operators en route to deploy for Op Petal, an external operation against ZIPRA in Botswana, 24 March 1979. In the photo from left-to-right: WO2 Wally Insch, Cpl Stu Hodgson, Lt Piet van der Riet MLM BCR (op commander), WO2 Pete McNeilage SCR, L-Cpl Jim Fletcher.

Op Petal, this is a photo taken on the 29th of March 1979, of 3 Group operators posing with ZIPRA Chief Intelligence Officer Elliot Sibanda’s Land Rover, who they had just ambushed and captured on the Grove Road in Botswana.

left to right: Lt Piet van der Riet MLM BCR (op commander), Sgt Wally Insch, WO2 Pete McNeilage SCR, Cpl Stuart Hogson…Read More

Two key SB members attached to the Selous Scouts, DSO Ed Bird (left) and Supt Winston Hart (right). The likes of Winston and Ed played a crucial role in the extremely hazardous task of turning captured terrorists into trustworthy and formidable Selous Scouts pseudo operators

Rhodesian SAS operator George Galloway

RLI troops getting ready for jump

Fireforce paras dropping in

Rhodesian Bell UH-1 Iroquois locally nicknamed “Cheetahs”. These were former Israeli helicopters that the RAF obtained, allegedly through intermediaries to evade sanctions.

Rhodesian Alouette III’s Rolling Start Take Off

Rhodesian Claymore Laying Drill Cards

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