by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Dec 2, 2025 | Cuban Units, FAPA/DAA |
Capt Raul Rubio strapping into the front seat of a MiG-23UB for a night-training flight during March 1986
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Dec 2, 2025 | 28 Squadron |
Bignoux served as a pilot, achieving the rank of Captain. He was involved in C-130 conversion training and became a commander in night-time supply drop operations. He was involved in the incident near Andulo in Apr 1986 when an Angolan MiG-23ML intercepted and...
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Nov 30, 2025 | Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment |
Canadian volunteer Dave Hughes, Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment, assigned as a grenadier prior to Op Miracle 1979. He is one of the few men in the Western World to have ever operated out of the T-55. Rhodesia had received a few, that had been confiscated by the South...
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Nov 29, 2025 | Selous Scouts, SAS C Squadron |
Sergeant Andre Paulus Rabie, a founding member of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts special forces unit, was killed in a friendly fire incident on September 16, 1973. He was a highly skilled soldier with C Squadron SAS who, along with Sergeant Alan “Stretch”...
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Nov 29, 2025 | SAS C Squadron |
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Nov 29, 2025 | SAS C Squadron |