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

RLI troopies from 1 Commando

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