Two soldiers of the #Rhodesian African Rifles, 1976. #RAR

#Rhodesian Mounted Infantry

#Rhodesian

A #Hunter with a two-seat 3Vampire over the pestilential Zambezi Valley in about 1972 as nationalist incursions increased. AIR MARSHAL N. WALSH #Rhodesian

#Hunter FGA9 R1198 with an Aermacchi #AL-60 over the Victoria Falls in 1970. The latter type often carried a forward air controller. AVM I. HARVEY #Rhosesian

Wearing Royal #Rhodesian Air Force ‘assegai’ roundels, #Hunter FGA9 R1258 of 1 Squadron cuts a menacing pose over Lake Kariba during the period when the first attacks on insurgents were made. ROYAL RHODESIAN AIR FORCE

This strange go-cart-looking vehicle was intended to cross over minefields without detonating explosive devices. For this purpose, #Pookie was fitted with four Formula One tires procured by the #Rhodesian government after the South African Grand Prix in 1976.

The width of the tires was able to exert less ground pressure than a footprint, or a…Read More

#Spook Mine-Protected Combat Vehicle… 1RAR at Metheun #RAR #Rhodesian

Border War. Iconic photograph taken by the late great Herman Potgieter of a South African Air Force #C47 Dakota from 44 Squadron, taking off opposite a defence bunker near the runway threshold at #Eenhana, South West Africa/Namibia.

Copyright: Herman Potgieter

#61Mech – Charlie Squadron – sitting on a destroyed Russian #T-55 tank – this is the image that is on the dust cover of Dave Mannall’s new book ‘Battle on the #Lomba 1987″ which will be launched tomorrow, and we thought it would be nice to share the foreword of the book written by General de Vries

“Let us go in to action with Charlie S…Read More