On 11 May 1985 PLAN executed one of their most successful standoff attacks when the SADF base at Ogandjera was attacked at 00h25 using 82mm mortars. 11 x SADF members were wounded
Post Timelines
25 Dec 1983 Cassinga
SADF 32 Battalion made contact with SWAPO 3km south of Cassinga and killed 5 enemy, including a company commander, "Thomas" of the Moscow Battalion. A prisoner revealed that the Moscow Battalion were located 10km north of Cassinga. Two other bases, 17km south and 22km...
10 Nov 1983 nr. Lubango
Cuban pilot Captain Roberto Hernandez Alvarez, was killed in a MiG-21 incident near Lubango
02 Oct 1983 nr. Lubango
Cuban pilot Captain Andres Valle is killed in a MiG-21 accident or shoot-down near Lubango, Angola, on October 2, 1983.
14 Sep 1983
Cuban soldier Carlos Emigdio Molina Sánchez is KIA in a confrontation with UNITA
7 Aug 1983 Cangamba
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...
6 Aug 1983 Cangamba
Cuban soldier Emilio JardÃn López is KIA at Cangamba. Operation Karton
05 Aug 1983 AFB Ondangwa
Six Mirage F1AZs landed at AFB Ondangwa after a 2h15 ferry-flight from AFB Hoedspruit to conduct spoof raids into Angola to test Angolan air defence response times, flying 3 sorties and returning to Hoedspruit on the 7th August.
05 Jul 1983 Dova/Nehone
On 5 July, 32Bn Alpha Company’s second platoon killed another SWAPO on the road between Dova and Nehone. - Operation Dolfyn
03 Jul 1983 Dova
On 3 July, SWAPO attacked 32Bn Alpha Company’s second platoon 20 km north of Dova, where one guerrilla was killed. - Operation Dolfyn
01 Jul 1983 Dova/Nehone
32Bn Alpha Company’s third platoon was waiting to be joined at a temporary base between Dova and Nehone by the first platoon, and when guards saw a group of men in uniform approaching, they assumed the platoon had arrived. Even when the newcomers opened fire, those in...
05 May 1983 Bambi
At first light on 5 May the assault force moved in to clean up the base and bury the dead before moving on to Bambi. Their patrol was cut short when a member of the State President’s Guard, the 23rd man in a single file, stepped on an anti-personnel mine that all 22...
03 Sep 1985 Kunjamba/Lomba River
The Soviet adviser to the head of the political department of the FAPLA 25th brigade, Major DMITRY DMITRIEVICH KIRICHEK, was killed. This happened 18 kilometers south of Kunjamba, in the area of ​​the Lomba River. The interpreter of the 8th brigade, YURIY PANCHENKO,...
03 May 1983 Camene
On 3 May, one of the reconnaissance teams of 32Bn set up an observation post on the Camene hill, and at 17h30 another team, scouting the area east of the hill, reported hearing voices and what sounded like people stacking ammunition crates. Similar sounds were picked...
04 Mar 1983 Alpha Tower
SWAPO PLAN RPG7 attack on Alpha Tower by 50-60 x PLAN insurgents at 01h10
09 Aug 1982
A SAAF Puma (#132) piloted by Capt.Twaddle is shot down by AAA and small arms fire 15km west of the Cuvelai-Techamutete road, killing all three SAAF crew members and twelve paratroopers aboard - Operation Meebos