#Soviet advisory personnel and training staff with #SWAPO #PLAN guerrillas in Angola, late 1970s. #Russian

A #SWAPO poster, part of the campaign in America to raise awareness and support for their cause, and published by the Liberation Support Movement, who publicized numerous African independence movements during the 1960s and 1970s. The South West Africa People’s Organization, after fighting against South Africa, would become the main political p…Read More

1980, Operation #Sceptic. Captain Tinus van Rensburg lying on a stretcher after being brought back to South West Africa/Namibia.

His Alouette III Helicopter, Serial No. 24 was shot down by an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket during the later stages of Operation Sceptic. His Flight Engineer Koos Cilliers was Killed. Tinus successfully evaded capture until…Read More

This is a SADF #Buffel Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) captured by #PLAN combatants (PLAN was the military arm of #SWAPO). Four Buffel APC’s were captured intact in different battles during the war. The picture was taken between September 1987 and March 1988 by Col K.A. Satenov, the Soviet military advisor to the 1st and 20th PLAN Brigade…Read More