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October 31, 1987 South Africa’s Angolan ally in the Border War – The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, known by its Portuguese acronym UNITA, captured two Cubans after shooting down their MIG-23 jet over Angola’s eastern province of Moxico. Cuba, in an unprecedented public admission, confirmed the incident identifying the Cubans…Read More
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Regular CMV correspondent James Kinnear earlier this year met
with members of the Union of Veterans of Angola during a trip to Russia to find
out more about the war in Angola from the Soviet perspective
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Not sure the names are correct!
Should be: Lt. Cdr. Manuel Rojas and Capt. Ramon Quesada Aguilar. 28 October 1987: MiG-21UM. Shot down by anti-aircraft fire from UNITA. Captured