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XO BBHQ posted in the group Portuguese Colonial Wars
The 1st Cavalry Group GCav1 was based in based in Silva Porto, Angola
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Portuguese Colonial Wars
Column in Chindorilho, Angola, February 14, 1970
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Portuguese Colonial Wars
Explosion of a mine under a FOX vehicle, in Largo do Aço, Angola on October 17, 1969
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Portuguese Colonial Wars
Mine explosion in “Chindorilho, between Mueda / Sagal, Angola February 14, 1969
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XO BBHQ posted in the group South African Border War
A Russian TU-95RT strategic bomber at Luanda airport on an unspecified date between 1976 and 1977
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XO BBHQ posted in the group South African Border War
A rarely seen photograph of Cuban pilots Manuel Rojas GarcÃa (Lieutenant Colonel) and Manuel Quesada Aguilar (Captain), prisoners of Savimbi, whose MIG-21UM was shot down on October 28, 1987, by UNITA’s MANPAD (manual anti-aircraft missile) in the Luena area. The photo was taken on October 31 of the same year at a political rally in Jamba.
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XO BBHQ posted in the group South African Border War
Cuban ground crew prepare Angolan MiG-21bis C-315 for its next sortie at Menongue
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
President and Supreme Commander of UNITA
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi - 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). #UNITA waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974, then confronted the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002.