Inspector Alan Stock (crouching), Patrol Officer Alan Murray, Constable David and Section Officer Dave Lawson on PATU duties at Karanda in the northeast, 1973.

ZANLA Commando Group under training. Instructors in the front row are, from left: Cde Chibede, Cde Zitterson Zuluka, Cde Oliver Shiri and Cde Dragon Patiripakashata, all of which are noms de guerre

FAPLA, atop a Soviet armored patrol car BRDM-2 in
Angola, 1975

Diedies sleeping in RENAMO base © Neves Mathias

A Recce Attack Diver with rebreather

Lt.Frans Conradie – legendary Koevoet

Koevoet trackers running on the spoor

A Soviet An-12B transport (serial CCCP-11922) unloading one of the first P-12 radars to reach Angola, in 1982. (via Albert Grandolini)

Operation Askari (January 1984): A prominent loss occurred near Cuvelai when a Ratel-20 (Call sign 13B) was directly hit and destroyed by a FAPLA T-55 tank, resulting in 6 crew fatalities.

Operation Moduler

Operation Moduler

FAPA-DAA Mi-8 landing

Portuguese Troops on the mission to destroy the Catur Base Mozambique

On the runway at Air Base 5 in Nacala, waiting to board the Nord Atlas for a parachute jump

Late 1970s armed Mazda pickup – Rhodesian BSAP convoy operations

Mig-21MF Fishbed-J in Angola 1976

Wally Insch – Selous Scouts

Jake, John Gartner, Butch Atkins, Noel Robey and Chris Schulenburg (in civilian clothing on the right)

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

Recce Selection

C Squadron Rhodesian SAS

A Company 2RAR ‘Heavies’ ready for action!

P Troop BSAP Support Unit

Fire Force gunner Beaver Shaw performing a pre-flight check in an Alouette K-Car gunship.

Superintendent Bob Mansel PATU BSAP

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

Cuban ground personnel with some of the Soviet technicians that helped assemble the first fighter jets destined for Angola, in front of the first MiG-15UTI of the FAPA/DAA (serial C21), in early 1976

Taken at Luanda on 25 January 1976, during celebrations associated with the establishment of the FAPA/DAA, this photograph shows a row of (Cuban-manned) MiG-17Fs, plus two C-47 transports left behind by the Portuguese

Members of Executive Outcomes

Operation Savannah: 22x Eland 90 armoured cars began a 2,400 km 6 day trek from Bloemfontein #SouthAfrica to Ondangwa in SW Africa where they would airlifted into the fight in #Angola 9 October 1975

A column of Eland armored cars passing by a destroyed Angolan T-54 tank during Operation Askari. 1984

SAAF Buccaneers

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

Picada Quivuenga

Angola – Mortar Platoon 2247

Portuguese Dragoon Angola