South African Bush War
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...
Hermenegildo M. Piloto Lazo
Pilot Lazo, Hermenegildo M. (San José de las Lajas, 13-4-52). Died in action when his unit was attacked on 28-8-84, in Luena at about 20h00 (Mortar attack) Birth: April 13, 1952, in San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque, Cuba. Family: He was the eldest of...
Facundo Moisés RodrÃguez
Died in a UNITA ambush on November 11, 1983, at the age of 26, during his service in the Cuban Army in Angola. He was a recognized internationalist combatant from Sagua de Tánamo, HolguÃn province, Cuba.
Carlos Luis Arencibia GarcÃa
Carlos Luis Arencibia GarcÃa (October 30, 1967 – August 25, 1987) was a Cuban internationalist combatant who died during a mission in Angola as part of the Cuban military intervention in the Angolan Civil War. Birth: Born in El Rosario, Viñales, Pinar del RÃo, Cuba....
Carlos Emigdio Molina Sánchez
Birth: Born on August 5, 1964, in Ariza, Rodas, Cienfuegos, Cuba. Military Service: He served in the Cuban Army and participated in an internationalist mission in Angola. Death: He died in a confrontation with UNITA forces (counterrevolutionary bands)...
Jorge Gonzalez Pérez
Bobby Keller
No 2 (R1M1) Landmine
This is the South-African No 2 (R1M1), a copy of the American M18A1 often called the SHRAPNEL MINE No 2, a High-Explosive-Fragmentation (HE-Frag), claymore shaped, plastic-bodied, directional, anti-personnel (AP), landmine that is designed to wound or kill by its...
No.8 Landmine
The No 8 mine is a South African a High-Explosive-Blast (HE-Blast) circular bakelite bodied, Anti-Vehicle (AV) cased minimum metal anti-tank blast mine, which is designed to damage or destroy a vehicle by its HE-Blast effect with a conventional pressure fuzing.. The...
Operation Firewood
Operation Firewood was a 1987 cross-border military operation conducted by the South African Defence Force (SADF) against the armed wing of SWAPO, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), during the later phases of the South African Border War. he PLAN Northern...
Operation Coolidge
Operation Coolidge was a covert military operation conducted by the South African 4 Reconnaissance Regiment in August 1987, where a team of 4 Recce Commandos was inserted by helicopter into an area north of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola to target infrastructure,...