Operation Dingo Zulu 1: Alouette’s refuelling at the admin base inside Mozambique.

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

Freefall paratroops deploy from a C-47 Dakota

Operation Cheese proved conclusively that the RLI could operate behind enemy lines as well as the SAS.

A PATU stick, Centenary East, 1975.

RLI, National Parks and BSAP personnel display captured Russian weaponry, Zambezi valley, 1966.

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

Member of the Rhodesian Grey’s Scouts during the Rhodesian Bush War

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

From right to left: N. V. Kurushkin, Sam NuJoma, Peter Nanyemba
and SWAPO functionaries observe the training of PLAN fighters, 1982, Lubango. Photo from the archive of N. V. Kurushkin