A SAAF Puma (#168) piloted by Capt.Robinson is shot down by small arms fire killing all 3 crew member aboard
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5 Nov 1981 Cahama
At 07h00, 12 SAAF Mirage F1AZ/CZs attacked the Sidenet radar installation at Cahama
23 Aug 1978 Katima Mulilo
On August 23, 1978, SWAPO’s Operation Revenge was executed on the SADF’s Sector 70HQ at Katima Mulilo at 01h15 in retaliation of the attack by the SADF on Cassinga on 4 May 1978. The standoff attack was launched from Zambia with 122mm missiles, 82mm and 60mm mortars....
2 May 1988 – Techipa
On 2 May, SAAF Mirages attacked FAPLA positions south of Techipa
27 Oct 1977
On 27 October 1977, a group of insurgents attacked a SADF patrol in the Cutline, killing 5 x South African soldiers and mortally wounding a sixth
28 Jun 1985
On 28 June, PLAN insurgents entered South West Africa damaging a bridge between Epali and Ondangwa, sabotaging twenty telephone poles, mortaring the Eenhana SADF base and a bomb was detonated at the Ongwediva Teachers Training College
26 Aug 1966 Ongulumbashe
The Battle of Ongulumbashe (also known as Operation Blouwildebees) was an armed confrontation between the South African Defence Force (SADF)/ South African Police (SAP) and the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) at Ongulumbashe in northern South West...
4 Jan 1976 Carmona
FAPLA-Cuban forces take FNLA capital of Carmona
3 Jan 1976 Negage
FAPLA-Cuban forces take the FNLA air bases of Negage and Camabatela
14 Oct 1975
On 14 October, the South Africans secretly launched Operation Savannah when Task Force Zulu, the first of several South African columns, crossed from Namibia into Cuando Cubango. Southern Angola was in chaos with the three independence movements fighting each other...
22 Aug 1975
On 22 August 1975, the SADF launched operation "Sausage II", a major raid against SWAPO in southern Angola
9 Aug 1975 Calueque
On 9 August 1975, a 30-man patrol of the South African Defence Force (SADF) moved some 50 km into southern Angola and occupied the Ruacana-Calueque hydro-electric complex and other installations on the Cunene River.
5 Nov 1975
The Cuban intervention in Angola (codenamed Operation Carlota) began on 5 November 1975
19 May 1968
On 19 May 1968, FNLA entered Eastern Angola and carried out its first violent actions in the region against the local populations
15 Mar 1961
The Union of Peoples of Angola (UPA), under the leadership of Holden Roberto, launched an incursion into northern Angola from its base in the Congo-Léopoldville (the former Belgian Congo), leading 4,000 to 5,000 militants
7 Jul 1954
UPA/FNLA was created on 7 July 1954, as the Union of the Peoples of Northern Angola, by Holden Roberto