Aníbal Esteves Macedo

Aníbal Esteves Macedo

by | Sep 16, 2025 | Portuguese Units | 0 comments

Mortar Platoon 1034 – Rank Corporal   Military Rank: First Corporal Mortar Pointer (1.º Cabo Apontador de Morteiro). Military Unit: Pelotão de Morteiros 1034, attached to the Companhia de Artilharia 1453. Mobilization: Mobilized by Infantry...
Flechas

Flechas

by | Sep 3, 2025 | Flechas, Portuguese Units

Flechas units were created and employed in Angola, during the Portuguese Colonial War, under the command of the PIDE (renamed DGS in 1969). Despite being a paramilitary police force, they were thus a police unit, not being under military command as the remaining...
Almerindo Mourão da Costa

Almerindo Mourão da Costa

by | Aug 26, 2025 | 1 Recce, Flechas | 0 comments

Almerindo Mourão da Costa, was born on the 19th August 1944, in a small village in the north of Portugal. Mourão da Costa was a member of the FLECHAS, elite unit of the DGS in Angola. Almerindo joined the SADF in February of 1975, completed the Special Forces...