John Gartner and Steven Mpofu about to deploy on a recce task. Both men appear to be wearing Portuguese Lizard Stripe camouflage which would indicate this operation was in Mozambique.

Selous Scouts Tim Callow and Aaron Mlambo, reconnaissance team extraordinaire! Note the suppressor on the AKM that Aaron carries. Both men are dressed in green fatigues which indicate this operation would be into Zambia. The green fatigues were to mislead observers should they be spotted, buying enough time to escape the area. The Zambian National…Read More

Angolan FAPLA soldiers and Soviet military advisers with 30 mm AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers during the civil war.

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

Vehicle pics were taken at the Lomba River battle site

Cuban soldier in Angola photographed by Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras, 1982.

MiG-23 pilot Lino Vieras (left) and a Cuban intelligence officer next to a MiG-23ML at Huambo in April 1986. An R-24T missile is loaded on the jet’s left shoulder pylon

Impala flypast at AFB Mpacha

A group of Cuban pilots in Angola. Alberto Ley Rivas is crouching in the front row furthest right, wearing a t-shirt. Fourth from the right at the back is Danasio Valdés, shot down by SAAF Mirages in a MiG-21 in 1981

Cuban pilot Alberto Ley, after a mission in a Mig 23, 1987

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