Angolan, Soviet and Cuban soldiers pose for a photograph near Cuito Cuanavale in April 1988

Cuban women soldiers at the training camp of Punda, near Luanda, Angola, in January 1989

National Liberation Front of Angola

Portuguese mercenaries of the National Liberation Front of Angola during the Angolan Civil War

Angolan Troops

Early photo of South Africa’s 4 Recce, today 4 SF Regiment, responsible for training and providing attack divers to the defence force

4 Recce Special Forces Divers

UNITA soldier next to an Olifant tank during Ops #Hooper, 1987

SADF Recce special forces operators from 1RR, Angola 1980’s
L to R: S Sgt. Almerindo Mourao da Costa, Hannes Venter and Lieb Liebenberg. Photo by Alexander Strachan

SADF SF Recce: Neves Matias during Operation Barrage, 1983

#Koevoet #Casspir

Alouette III circling above a Casspir during a Koevoet operation