FN MAG Gunner during the bush war

1978, 2SAI troops training around Walvis Bay Area

Eland 90’s circa 1978 training outside Walvis Bay

SADF infantryman during the Border War, in the early 1980s.

Rare pic of a SADF Kudu MPV …probably late 1970s

SAAF #Mirage F1AZ in ‘Le Spectre’ low-visibility color scheme with a Matra R530 slung underneath

1 Sqn #Mirage F1AZ was taken from the back seat of a 24 Sqn #Buccaneer whilst flying on a combat sortie over Angola during Ops #Modular in 1987

24 Squadron Buccaneer demonstrating exactly that as it thunders along at low level over Southern Angola en-route to an enemy target during Operation Modular, sometime between August – December 1987. Image courtesy to Graham Du Toit.

Here is a never before published photograph taken from the cockpit of a SAAF Puma Helicopter airlifting Paratrooper Fire-Force troops into action during the Border War.

South African rapid response unit is debused from a South African Air Force Puma helicopter somewhere on the Angolan and South West African/Namibian Border. Great photo by Peter Marlow

South African Air Force pilot of a French built SAAF Mirage F1CZ fighter jet climbing into his cockpit at his airbase in Waterkloof near Pretoria. 1978. This Mirage was number 212.

Crew of an #Eland 90 armoured car at work freeing their vehicle, after it bogged down in a flooded shona (flood plain) during the annual rainy season in Ovamboland – South West Africa/Namiba.

Photo acknowledgement : Chris van der Walt,