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

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

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

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

Cuban troops in Angola

A Russian TU-95RT strategic bomber at Luanda airport on an unspecified date between 1976 and 1977

A rarely seen photograph of Cuban pilots Manuel Rojas García (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.

Cuban ground crew prepare Angolan MiG-21bis C-315 for its next sortie at Menongue

Portuguese Soldiers in Guinéa

Soviet Military Interpreter Oleg Gritsuk of the 13th FAPLA Brigade at the end of 1987 at Cuito Cuanavale

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

Soviet specialist of the FAPLA anti-aircraft missile brigade “Kvadrat” Vladimir Volodin in Cuito Cuanavale. 1984

M. I. Konovalenko with his subordinates in the ANC MK “Kakulama” camp. From left to right: military topography specialist, mine and explosives specialist, group senior, air defense specialist (Strela-2M), artillery systems specialist (Grad-P, mortars), hand-to-hand combat instructor. Angola, 1987. Photo from M. Konovalenko’s archive

Arrival at the airport of Malanje for the celebration of the
75th anniversary of the ANC of ANC President Oliver Tambo
(right in the center). On the left is the provincial commissioner
of Malanje (governor of the province), member of the Politburo
MPLA-PT Colonel João Ernesto dos Santos “Liberdade”. In the group of accompanying persons is the…Read More

At the Kakulama camp. M. I. Konovalenko (left) and his subordinates: John Nkadimeng, member of the ANC National Executive Committee and Secretary General of SACTU, Godfrey Ngwenya, commander of the MK forces in Angola from 1983 to 1989 and future Commander-in-Chief (since 2005) of the SADF, Hagger McBerry, who since 1997, with the rank of…Read More

Soviet military specialists at the Kakulama camp with female ANC MK fighters from the camp’s honor guard platoon. 1986. Photo from the archive of M. Konovalenko.

Soviet specialists with the ANC before leaving for the Umkhonto we Sizwe training camp “Kakulama”: military intelligence specialist Nikolai Ivanovich Pirch, specialist in materiel and combat use of small arms Igor Mikhailovich Sheptun, specialist in fire training Kalizhan Kuanyshbaevich Alzhanov, military translators Vitaly Dmitrievich Svetlyshev…Read More

The wreckage of the fuselage of the South African Air Force Impala attack aircraft, shot down by PLAN air defense fighters in southern Angola, was transported to the T. Haineko Training Center. In the center is Colonel V. A. Skurydin, Advisor to the Chief Military Prosecutor of PLAN. 1985. Photo from the archive of A. Marchenko.

Cuban tank crew in Angola.

Soviet special forces (Spetsnaz) in Angola, 1985.

A Soviet military specialist trains Angolan communists in hand-to-hand combat techniques. War in Angola, the 1970s

Soviet advisor Tatyana Davydova poses with an Angolan soldier in Angola, late 1980’s.

A front-line ‘homemade’ product created by the Cubans for convoy escort

Soviet advisors on the road between Menongue and Cuito Cuanavale with personnel on a BTR-60 PB

This T-34-85 is one of several that were embedded as fixed defence points at Cuito Cuanavale (Soviet Advisors)

Another image taken on the road between Menongue and Cuito Cuanavale with personnel on a BTR 60PB. The Union of Veterans of Angola (UVA) was established in Moscow in 2004 to preserve the memory of those that served in Angola

Adviser to the chief of artillery of the 10th Inf Brigade under the command of Y Yatsun, advisor to the commander of the 10th Inf Brigade under the command of V Sagatchko, advisor to the chief of air defence of the 8th Inf Brigade under the command of V Romanov. In the background is a destroyed FAPLA fuel truck ambushed by UNITA

Soviet military advisors (A Shishov on left) on the ‘road of death’ from Menongue to Cuito Cuanavale