On the trail to the Lunguege River, Angola – Mário Mendes

Detachment in Rivungo on the Cuando River, Angola. From left: unidentified fuzileiro lieutenant-commander, 2Lt (Cavalry) Barato Silvéiro, Óscar Cardoso and Manuel Pontes. Photo Personal archive of Óscar Cardoso

Recce Selection

Portuguese soldier during the African colonial wars with an MG42, Ca. 1970’s

Members of CAVALRY COMPANY 3419 in Chimbete, Angola/Cabinda 71/73

Picada Quivuenga

Angola – Mortar Platoon 2247

Portuguese Dragoon Angola

Dragoons Angola

The 1st Cavalry Group GCav1 was based in based in Silva Porto, Angola

Column in Chindorilho, Angola, February 14, 1970

Explosion of a mine under a FOX vehicle, in Largo do Aço, Angola on October 17, 1969

Mine explosion in “Chindorilho, between Mueda / Sagal, Angola February 14, 1969

Portuguese Soldiers in Guinéa

Flechas on parade – Angola

Óscar Cardoso providing training on the handling of a 7.62mm FN MAG light machine gun to a Flecha Bushman

Awarding of decorations to the Flechas of the province of Uíge, wearing the famous camouflage beret instituted by PIDE inspector Alves Cardoso

South African SF Recce’s in Angola, 1980’s Courtesy Mike West

SADF Recce: Chris Schutte and a monkey Fort Doppies, 1980’s

SADF Recce operators destroy bridge on the Soviet Front in Mozambique

Mozambique Revolution no.58, January-March 1974

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Very rare photo of South African Spec Forces in the late 80’s in Angola

1, 4, and 5 Recce operators during the last ever Small Team course, just after the Angolan War

Recce Operators

South African 4 Reconnaissance Commando operators prepping for Operation Nobilis, 10 July 1984.

A Portuguese Air Force F-84 Thunderjet being loaded with ordnance in the 1960s, at Luanda Air Base.

A group of BCAÇ 17 Trackers somewhere in the Tete District

Dornier Do-27 delivering mail in Mozambique

Founder and first commanding officer of the Grupos Especiais Pára-quedistas, Colonel Costa Campos wearing the red beret of the GEP, sitting alongside the Commander in Chief of forces in Mozambique, General Kau?lza de Arriaga in an Alouette III helicopter.

Bare-chested, First Lieutenant Pereira Bastos, commander of the 8th Special Fusiliers

Recce attack on terr base in Angola

Teddy the lion swimming with the Recce operators at Fort Doppies

Colonel Breytenbach not only founded the South African Special Forces (the Reconnaissance Commandos, or “Recces”) and 44 Parachute Brigade, but 32 Battalion as well

A gripping first-hand account of the combat operations and life of a member of the secretive and elite South African Special Forces, known as ‘Recces’.

South African Special Forces, known as the ‘Recces’, are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of thei…Read More

5/1 Recce base Fort Rev at AFB Ondangwa taken from a gunship. This is one of the late photos of the Fort, as it is bigger and had taken over some of Koevoet ground

Welcome to Fort Foot – Special Forces base within Rundu Town.

awesome interviews – thanks Koos!!!!

South African Recces (Special Forces), 1987, taken before a large battle in Angola.

SADF Recce team with Puma pilots before deployment into Angola, 1980’s

South African #Recce troops on the Quito river at a place called Mapupa, trying to recover an Angolan PT-76 during Operation Protea in 1981. They eventually destroyed it

Portuguese Commandos in Angola, during the Portuguese Colonial War which lasted 13 years (1961-1974)

#Recce with huge backpack in Angola

Portuguese mercenaries of the National Liberation Front of Angola during the Angolan Civil War

SADF Recce: Neves Matias before an ops with 80+kg on his back, 1980’s

Obies

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