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South African Bush War
Brian Westwood
Jim McGuire
Jim Maguire (46) a former Royal Marine from London who went on to serve in the Rhodesian and South African special forces, was a mercenary in Ivory Coast for three months.
Charlie Loxton
Jim Savoury
Robert “Cliffy” Clifford
American seeking adventure. He was a Foreign volunteer during the Rhodesian Bush War, known for serving with elite units of the Rhodesian Security Forces. After 1980 joined 32Bn South Africa
Phil Cairns
former member of the New Zealand SAS. Phillip Kearns
Luther Eeben Barlow
Lt-Col. Eeben Barlow is a veteran of the South African Defence Force and was the second-in-command of its elite special forces 32 Battalion Reconnaissance Wing and went as the founder of Executive Outcomes
Lorenzo Morales Ramos
Cuban pilot of MiG-21 killed in Angola, other sources say MIG-23 ML near Lubango
Vladimir Tinyakov
Vladimir Ilyich Ivanogorodsky
Oleg Lazarev
Juan Miguel BenÃtez Fernández
Cangamba, at nightfall on 7 August 1983, there was a heavy firefight in front of Sector No. 1 as UNITA advanced from the houses, shouting, and the defenders were forced to retreat. The artillery fire destroyed the last remaining BRDM. In Sector No. 3, Cuban...
Emilio JardÃn López
Killed in action during the Battle of Cangamba in Angola on August 6, 1983
Eddy Gómez Planelles
Gómez Planelles, Eddy (Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas, 11/6/68). Sapper. Died in a mine explosion on March 4, 1989, during the battles at Cuito Cuanavale. His body, completely destroyed, could not be recovered. He is remembered in Cuba, with a school in Ciénaga de...
Osmani Bermúdez Argüelles
(Trinidad, 26-7-66). SMG. Died on 3-12-87 from a mine explosion (six of his comrades died along with him). He was part of a reinforcement column headed for Cuito Cuanavale. Birth: He was born on July 26, 1966, in Trinidad, Cuba, into a working-class...