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Ground Training SchoolREPORTING FOR SERVICE MUST BE much the same for everyone. I am certain mostrecruits suffer intense apprehension and a sense of awkwardness while seekingout anyone in civilian clothing looking as unsure and awkward as they feel. Iwas delighted to find David Thorne whom I had met some months before duringthe pilot selection process. Together we felt more confident and were soongathering in our new course mates.All Rhodesian schoolboys had undergone Army Cadet training at school andthe annual cadet camps at Inkomo Barracks. So we instinctively responded to thebellowed command “Fall in”. Before us was the Station Warrant Officer (SWO)Bill Holden, a large ruddy-faced ex-British Royal Marine. Having welcomed usinto the RRAF and, following a few words on what we were required to do overthe next two days, sixteen men in civvy clothing were doubled-off’ to sign up forservice.Thereafter, we went to Station Equipment section where we drew uniformsand our flying kit, then doubled to the Officers’ Mess single quarters to checkinto our billets; two cadets to a room. By midday we were being drilled in ourunpressed and uncomfortable new uniforms and stiff shoes. The SWO gave allcommands in the typical Army way but otherwise he acted somewhat differentlyto the drill sergeants we had previously known. He used no bad language andacted in a formal yet non-threatening manner.We were released to our billets in the late afternoon to find all members of No9 SSU awaiting our arrival. They immediately set out to subjugate us, arecognised prerogative of the senior course. Since they only had two nightsbefore we would be at Thornhill and beyond their clutches, 9 SSU decided tomake both nights sheer hell for us.This course had been at Thornhill for their training and, like us, had only beensubjected to the attentions of their predecessors—No 8 SSU—for two nightswhen they attested for service. The consequence of this was that they had littleidea of how to handle a junior course.The first ‘directive’ issued was that every one of 10 SSU was to have all hishair shaved off. For a short while they thought they had us under control until itcame to cutting Gordon Wright’s hair.
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- Page 9 and 10: Flying Instructors SchoolPaul MarkD
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- Page 15: Chapter 10CeasefireDinner with ZIPR
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- Page 24 and 25: Chapter1A short history of theRhode
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- Page 30 and 31: Younger daysAT 13:15 ON 2 JUNE 1936
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- Page 36 and 37: had brought into our lives.One of t
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- Page 44 and 45: told my father that I was wasting m
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- Page 52 and 53: We left and I thought no more about
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Without hesitation Mac Geeringh tol
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Chapter3No 1 SquadronON 3 JANUARY 1
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Interview with CommanderI HAD BEEN
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was already on the phone to Wing Co
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in a cloud valley with higher banks
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Pregnant Beryl: a happy consequence
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Canberra bombersNEGOTIATIONS BETWEE
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for the likes of myself!
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Vampires.Old Control Tower.Colin ha
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Randy du Rand.Peter McLurg.Randy co
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Air showsFOLLOWING THE DEATH OF COL
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John Mussell.I do not recall what w
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formation noise had abated sufficie
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in general improved noticeably as t
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breakfast, we were ready to return
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sharks favoured this particular pat
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build. Much to my embarrassment Smi
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everyone the day and time that the
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then picked up the casualty without
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Set in the old extinct volcanic cra
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Hunter at high speed was really fan
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Myburgh, Bob Woodward (OC), Chris D
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Death of Jack RobertsJACK ROBERTS O
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long enough to allow us to wallow p
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Flying School officer serving as an
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Death of Eric CaryON THE 9 FEBRUARY
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First studentsAT THIS TIME NO 14 PT
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good students in exchange for diffi
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SQUADRON LEADER CHARLIE GOODWIN WAS
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Practical jokersAS WITH ANY FORCE T
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question. Those of us who read thro
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15 PTCWITH THE INTRODUCTION OF CANB
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This led to the discovery that some
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Congo crisisDURING A VISIT TO SOUTH
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Following a tenuous Ceasefire the U
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The formation leader, showing annoy
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personal relationship with Bat seem
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this occasion we entered strong lif
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were now set at a higher than norma
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youngsters I had ever met. He was n
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was one to be tested by Flight Lieu
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what I could do about it. Then, upo
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Director General Operations, Group
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approached found reason to drift of
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Return to ThornhillFOLLOWING THE DI
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A lone kudu at Kutanga Range.Surrou
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Weapons demonstrationTHE DATE OF TH
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Flight Lieutenant Ian Douglas Smith
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Included for first tests were eight
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PB with Bruce during his BFS.I look
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was my first experience of conveyin
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Flying Wing AdjutantIN AUGUST 1964
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Rupert FothergillON 8 AUGUST 1965 I
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Helicopter training for the first R
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Unilateral Declaration of Independe
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o’clock, Ian Smith read Rhodesia
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Rolls Royce enginesTHE FIRST ROLLS
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from high-volume-flow compressed ai
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Cargo slinging, hoisting slope land
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Sinoia operationSquadron Leader Joh
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Tony Smit proved the difficulty som
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These uniforms were intended to giv
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refuelling.I briefed my new OC Squa
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of sweep line Charlie to watch for
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Helicopter projectsJUST PRIOR TO TH
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obviously been generated by interes
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Nevada murderAT 04:30 ON 25 MAY 196
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had been annihilated and the third
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Province of Mozambique. The third g
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Helicopter projects continuedIN BET
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whispered in my ear, “Naughty, na
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Accidental entry into ZambiaTHE FRE
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reaching zero fuel, a small light o
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The flight line was altered to fly
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Elephants and the ministerMARK MCLE
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killed in an accidental explosion o
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Javelin.On the pretext of going on
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A different way of thinkingIAN SMIT
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quality hand-soaps. Included was a
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PB, Rob Gaunt and Eddie Wilkinson s
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The fun of helicoptersIT WAS UNUSUA
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observer, Bill Perkins (Perky), was
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Operation NickelBY MID-AUGUST 1967
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The Batoka Gorge lay the same dista
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Geldenhuysremained overhead the con
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By 10 am three extra helicopters we
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take us, step by step, through ever
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the Army and serving as a ranger wi
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reached the point where the terrori
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deploying Nick’s callsign at the
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leader was listening in on the radi
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callsign.Bill had not yet reached t
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laid out the three bodies then comp
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Radio tracker dog project disallowe
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Mountain flyingIN OCTOBER 1967, I C
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a break from political work at Kari
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Training Norman WalshFLIGHT LIEUTEN
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Tracker dog projectBEFORE JOHN ROGE
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operational employment.Two days lat
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The rotting carcass of an elephant.
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Prior to Op Cauldron pilots usually
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see his scars. The shiny black puck
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Disappointed at having missed the a
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All of the troops had been in the b
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officers at New Sarum to brief them
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Roland CoffegnotSUD AVIATION’S CH
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Operation GriffinIN MID 1968 BERYL
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recover from the dive where the riv
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Tracker dogs provenFOLLOWING AIR HQ
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Patrol Officer Ted Spencer with Jil
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Operation ExcessZANU HAD BEEN QUIET
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sufficient fuel to bring the whole
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Alan Aird and I searched forward an
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the line of Dumpy’s followup. The
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Concern for Tete ProvinceZANU HAD F
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This happened to be a quiet time wh
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on foot with his little dog and ano
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Tripper operationsON 7 DECEMBER 196
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Butch Graydon with his MAG in foreg
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orders for past events showed that
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young Portuguese Air Force pilots w
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Tete, a continuous presence of Rhod
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she would one day go missing for go
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of the camera and had charged the p
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Oink being given a drink of beer by
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Death of Don AnnandaleSOUTH AFRICAN
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and crashed down in soft sand and r
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The ever-playful cub became over-ex
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TrojansTHE TROJAN AIRCRAFT THAT 4 S
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T28 Trojan.Yet in this deal the sup
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into the ground but I feared enteri
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testing of students anywhere but at
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AVM Raf Bentley (top left), AVM Har
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Frank Mussell (standing), Flight Li
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Paris Air ShowI HAD ONLY BEEN WITH
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had been produced for civilian use,
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trouble.Cyril and Prop were still i
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AlcoraGOOD POLITICAL AND INTER-SERV
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Visit to Cabo del GadoIN MAY 1970 P
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differed so much from the situation
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On our second night at Mueda my sle
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pitched up in a climbing turn to wa
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such a dangerous method of checking
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Medical hitchI BECAME CONCERNED ABO
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Lieutenant Mike Hill (left) and Squ
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conditions. I do not recall the fat
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day but, when the crunch came, Air
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fellows swallow every one of about
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I WAS STILL ON LEAVE WHEN, on 17 Ja
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Since I was the only man in the for
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be a cheerful unit. However, so far
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power with variable noise—noise g
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leading from these huts. Having dec
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lines were easily recognised and th
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Aloe FestivalBEFORE CLEARANCE WAS G
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ZANU and ZAPU activitiesTHE WARS BE
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from around 400,000 to over six mil
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A few men within ZANU’s ranks had
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Gutsa base camp.On our first night
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Dave Rowe (left) and John Blythe-Wo
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emphasis and expansion on details.
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Preparing for bush opsBACK AT THORN
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John Blythe-Wood.It took only one f
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and Territorial Army platoon comman
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fired when I was about to move on w
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Operation SableIN SPITE OF ALL THE
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him there was no need for any apolo
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Nicholas and the old manRLI PURSUED
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of hundreds of civilians from Macom
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between Christmas and New Year when
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Countering landminesEVEN BEFORE THE
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Centenary daysWHEN JOC HURRICANE WA
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and trained. This was to operate in
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Deaths of Smart and SmithdorffHAVIN
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Offensive reccesALTHOUGH I HAD BEEN
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wounds than to offensive actions. T
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was extracted from the Provost cock
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Flight Sergeant Benji.
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PB presenting the mayor with a pers
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I intercepted Henry on his return t
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Early FAC to jetsMY FIRST CALL FOR
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This photo is not of the target in
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The face of terrorismHAVING ESTABLI
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A woman whose top lip had been cut
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ZANLA recruitmentTERRORIST NUMBERS
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abductees. Initial reaction had cau
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gain the necessary intelligence tha
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few feet.On the second attack I was
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qualified air-traffic and radar con
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that wind flow must level off befor
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obviously be dangerous and immediat
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time of my marker strike. The jets
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danger at all; his Hunter always fl
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SAS training on low-level static-li
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First internal recce successGROUND
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places checked out by ground forces
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Strela missilesRUSSIAN ANTI-AIRCRAF
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no qualified PAI to ensure pilot pr
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casevac an SAP man from Sipolilo to
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1. As a result of 4 Squadron’s vi
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Comments by SO OPSSqn Ldr Petter-Bo
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Selous ScoutsAT ABOUT THIS TIME I m
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soldiers in numbers exceeding those
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who was lowered to the injured man
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back through overhead lights before
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seconds to place down all weapons,
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pressure on the right rudder pedal.
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missions to keep me out of trouble
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Chifombo BaseGOING AHEAD IN TIME, I
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Peter Cooke was also there because
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Beginning of Black MonthBACK IN MOZ
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(Signed) Flight Lieutenant I.H. Don
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Salisbury.(Unsigned)Comments by OCF
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recorded and answers given to many
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A chat with Prime Minister Ian Smit
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All four Pumas dropped their troops
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attended to each day. These were sm
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resulted in all the aircraft being
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On 13 April the assault force was p
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Search for ChrisI PREPARED IMMEDIAT
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Trojan, Cessna.We passed a formatio
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my Cessna 185 with Chris Dickinson
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tree on the south side of the base
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Mike Saunders
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Rob Gaunt
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started his day there by walking ba
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Government Treasury. Fortunately a
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Provosts came from behind the mount
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easier to achieve this with white p
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worked very well. Our tests confirm
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Morris fired their cannon in anothe
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Fireforce and ScoutsON COMPLETION O
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The group was engaged and ters were
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8. During this engagement I had rec
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general public of South African eve
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Authentication of pseudo groupsON 2
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in their own hands.The big bang tha
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When the time came to make his firs
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Cyril WhiteFrom my own very selfish
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The four white policemen died but o
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Quiet timesMY AIR STAFF POST AS Ops
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strongly criticised by some Air HQ
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was captured. So far as I recall, t
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AS IN THE YEARS BEFORE and in those
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when every item of captured equipme
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Having briefed the Fireforce, Cocky
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unusual sight was giving him 100% s
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Last air actions of 1975THE CT CARE
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Loss of top army officersARMY CHIEF
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until it was time for him to ‘sta
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Swimming pool at FAF 5 with Chopper
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It was all very well to be content
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independence, the split interests o
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But access to the switch was barred
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blossomed on the ground 5,000 feet
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it was necessary to keep the number
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excited report-back to the South Af
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Keith Corrans, held back for the se
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the vertical pillar of spray from t
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Mike Gedye, Eddie Wilkinson, Len Pi
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explained that the downed aircraft
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Fireforces back in actionZIPRA, HAV
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Tracks were followed to point E whe
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methods as aerial tracking, leapfro
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FAF commanders such as Tol Janeke a
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Air HQ. Design work had been on the
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me.My first trial flight was made w
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ZANLA take a beating whilst wearing
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SO PlansIN MARCH 1976, I WAS promot
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HQ, Group Captain Norman Walsh told
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III air-to-air gunnery results. Ric
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As there was no airborne army comma
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joined up in the area VP 506538 & t
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Part of Cocky’s ASR reads, Owing
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flight.As we approached Salisbury I
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Fireforce when the follow-up starte
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Project AlphaFOR MANY YEARS I HAD q
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Leader Ken Gibson, to see me in my
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against enemy ships by skipping rou
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and outer casings at this very meet
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the first full-scale drop. We had r
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Pyrotechnics and boosted rocketsTAR
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Madula Pan. This attack will be dis
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Hispano cannons for ScoutsTHE SELOU
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First photograph of Nyadzonya. Note
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Mixed events1976 HAD BEEN A YEAR OF
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action to date. Regrettably, three
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carried mortar bombs, which were dr
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and the medic were safe, he went ba
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first time, the CTs, who were in bo
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height for at least ten kilometres
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Borlace, troops eventually overran
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Yellow SubmarineSELOUS SCOUTS WERE
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that had no difficulty following hi
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sited at the base of the tree at th
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Lundi crash.On recall from his civi
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Madula Pan attackON THE NIGHT OF 10
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5. Green 4. Green 4 was heard relay
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I was very distressed by all of thi
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spite of this they had been more th
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was another bonus.
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metres radius from blast centre. Th
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Waiting for the explosion and ensui
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initiation of Pentolite booster cha
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PRAW recce training camp, at Marand
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Testing American equipmentBOB CLEAV
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COMPOS establishedFROM THE MID 1960
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The Rhodesian press and radio boast
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General Walls (left) and Group Capt
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However, before presenting his plan
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involvement in both of these SAS op
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FlechettesTHE FRENCH PRODUCED AN AN
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This Hunter DFGA 9 armament layout
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5% against the Rhodesian establishm
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First employment of flechettesON 26
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** Hunter strike using flechette pr
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operational proposals frightened th
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first wave of troops, thereby addin
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Put very simply—that was the plan
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He revealed that he had arranged fo
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The briefing followed the same form
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Approaching Lake Alexander.The main
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technicians and two pilots descende
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minutes, because officers and soldi
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flurry of cracks sounded around us,
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Tembue attackTHE EASTERN SKY HAD ON
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had flown it in completed the round
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way to the south along the Rhodesia
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them of any sense of concern for th
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provide the main force a continuous
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advantage of unusually thick bush c
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features that had to be built into
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from another position 500 yards awa
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noticed that their weapons did not
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shortly.) Nevertheless the Fireforc
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understood well.The Shona word Chil
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done easily enough if it was not lo
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scientist and his four assistants w
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senior project engineer to Salisbur
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requested a check out. No movement
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cumbersome and slows down the whole
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‘dickey’ in Dakotas. His favour
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I could not expect to be given an A
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had been given the breathing space
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As can be seen from the ASR, the Hu
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panting men arrived, Nigel ordered
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When the DC7 returned, its first dr
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Viscount disasterSADLY, AIR RHODESI
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nostrils of Heaven. But are we deaf
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detonated on the highest point over
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Rhodesia as had been expected, and
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with the SAS against ZIPRA’s Mkus
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of the destroyed HQ buildings.Chris
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admiration of the aircrews who saw
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Chris Dixon (left) with Rob Gaunt.
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The Selous Scouts were given the ta
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Rhodesian border. News of this impe
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Posting to COMOPSIN LATE NOVEMBER 1
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McGregor (8). Not present in this l
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because of its un-embroidered simpl
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Mozambican National ResistancePRIOR
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Whereas there had been no question
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that served as headquarters, classr
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Immediately the formation was throu
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Vanduzi CircleBACK IN MOZAMBIQUE, Z
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Fireforce Army Unit Deployments Kil
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WHILST SIBANDA’S INFORMATION WAS
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The third attempt probably gave the
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Mulungushi barrack lines top left.
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Numerous difficulties were encounte
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Kazungula ferryAT THE SAME TIME THA
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CheetahsAIR COMMODORE NORMAN WALSH
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were all processed through the corr
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Muzorewa in typical dress seen here
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them ‘comfort’ on their usually
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Flechette successIN EARLY MAY I REC
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ELLIOTT SIBANDA, THE ZIPRA MAN capt
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Sibanda. Elliott’s job, using a l
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Hunter formation passing over Thorn
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Xai XaiUNRELATED TO VUSA’S INFORM
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Attempts to assassinate Robert Muga
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Cheetahs carrying men and demolitio
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Political turmoilIT WAS VERY FRUSTR
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Operation UricFOR THE MOMENT ZIPRA
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force. We knew this force relied he
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enemy transport in their immediate
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and the OAU but it certainly did no
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visit my godfather and his wife, Al
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Vanduzi Circle areas. They claimed
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men also indicated that if CTs were
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Dave Parker died. In March 1977, Mi
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good assessment had been made and t
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Some of the guns captured in the ca
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The Canberra lost both engines, for
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had broken down. As if this was not
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general belief amongst the SAS offi
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Because both patrols were still wel
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Operation TepidWE HAD STUMBLED UPON
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good overhead protection.The Rhodes
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with the job of harassing ZIPRA mov
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Chapter10
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Salisbury Airport and New Sarum fer
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Meetings of the Ceasefire Committee
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had an electrifying effect on the m
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from it. Having driven through a bl
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was urgent need for a serious discu
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New York when Machel told him to ge
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decided to take a pot shot at me. I
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mujibas. The man I was moving towar
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Visits to ZIPRA APsAFTER ZANLA, ZIP
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cocked. Being so close to him I wen
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ElectionsUNTIL A NEW GOVERNMENT WAS
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gained a majority at the polls. Thi
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trouble whilst trying to put on a b
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battle tanks, APCs and other fighti
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Chemical Engineering.There was much
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In much happier times, Ian receives
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appeasement kicked in to destroy it
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am still proud to be British having
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CMFCSIRCSMCTDCDDGSSDIDZEFJEMAEMJFAC
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SACP South African Communist PartyS
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Panzer Lehr Division 1944-45 (Helio
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Sniping in France 1914-18. With Not
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Penalty Strike. The Memoirs of a Re
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Red Star Airacobra. Memoirs of a So
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for
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The Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 Vol
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Bismarck’s First War. The Campaig
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Abolishing the Taboo: Dwight D. Eis
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Cataclysm: The War on the Eastern F
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An Active Service The story of a so
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Imperial German Army 1914-18 Organi
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Panzer Gunner: From My Native Canad
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Landrecies to Cambrai: Case Studies
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Military Government in Exile: The P
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A Rendezvous with the Enemy: My Bro
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The Silent General: Horne of the Fi
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Battle for Cassinga: South Africa
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The Whole Armour of God: Anglican A
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Airborne Armour: Tetrarch, Locust,
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Vlamgat: The Story of Mirage F1 in
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Counter-Strike from the Sky: The Rh
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Shadows in the Sand: A Loevoet Trac
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Flawed Genius: Field Marshal Walter
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A New Battlefield: The Royal Ulster
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Military Operations of the Dutch Ar
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With Tegetthoff at Lissa: The Memoi
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Bibliography of the Seven Weeks’
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The Danish Campaign of 1864Wilhelm
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Black Tuesday over Namsi: B-29s vs
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