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and30° South Publishers (Pty) Ltd.16 Ivy RoadPinetown 3610South Africaemail: info@30degreessouth.co.zawebsite: www.30degreessouth.co.zaFirst published by Trafford Publishing, 2003Copyright © P.J.H Petter-Bowyer, 2005eBook © P.J.H Petter-Bowyer, 2012Digital Edition ISBN: 9781908916662Design and origination by 30° South Publishers (Pty) Ltd.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored,manipulated in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any mechanical, electronicform or by any other means, without the prior written authority of the publishersexcept for short extracts in media reviews. Any person who engages in anyunauthorized activity in relation to this publication shall be liable to criminalprosecution and claims for civil and criminal damages.
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Page 8 and 9: ContentsMapsCentral Africa and Sout
Page 10 and 11: FAC courses and smoke trailsMissing
Page 12 and 13: Selous ScoutsCordon SanitaireOdds a
Page 14 and 15: Deaths of du Toit and NelsonSecond
Page 19 and 20: ForewordI WILL NOT PRETEND THAT I h
Page 21 and 22: Author’s NoteWHILE RESEARCHING MY
Page 23 and 24: Peter Petter-Bowyer (‘PB’)Norfo
Page 25 and 26: Air Unit were called up for full-ti
Page 27 and 28: Europe and the onset of the Korean
Page 29 and 30: the course I attended.
Page 31 and 32: circuited. Nobody could pronounce P
Page 33 and 34: Mom, Dad and I.Both Mum and Dad wor
Page 35 and 36: The organist and choirmaster were M
Page 37 and 38: John Smith.Bill Smith, incensed by
Page 39 and 40: Group Captain Berrisford-Pakenham.I
Page 41 and 42: my headmaster, Mr Gledhill, had tol
Page 43 and 44: him of my hopes, he was telling me
Page 45 and 46: anger by storming off at high speed
Page 47 and 48: Ground Training SchoolREPORTING FOR
Page 49 and 50: Sergeant McCone.Flight Lieutenant P
Page 51 and 52: I shared a house with David Thorne,
Page 53 and 54: Officers’ Mess caterer, came to m
Page 55 and 56: PB and Beryl at Great Zimbabwe.Two
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Whereas the Harvard had retractable
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chose to limit the duration of his
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solo. This was a distinct advantage
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eighths cloud (no blue sky) gave op
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this made map-reading for students
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Flying Officer Rex Taylor.Flight Li
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and laid them low with a couple of
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Advanced Flying SchoolTHE ARRIVAL O
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A pair of Vampires.The second diffi
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impossible and the aircraft simply
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I rolled the aircraft inverted and
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pre-engine startup checks. On the l
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parents to move from Britain to the
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PB receiving his wings from Sir Roy
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Kenya. Such an opportunity had not
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that extended the line of aircraft
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The normal speed for the commenceme
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after dangerous loop failures. He g
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with about ninety degrees of port b
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view into heavy rain. I entered it
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return on training costs, became th
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No 1 Squadron. Basil Green, Eddie W
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that followed it. Having saluted hi
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Nyasaland emergencyTHE FEDERATION O
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4 Squadron guys who went to Nyasala
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noticed that one of them was small
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Canberra B2 bombers at Thornhill.In
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The Colin Graves tragedyAFTER THE F
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canopy. This created a shower of fl
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visible above flying debris and a g
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Charles Paxton (right) seen here wi
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Standing: Officers of No 1 Squadron
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meet the first five-second delay th
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Aden detachmentIN LATE SEPTEMBER 19
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lay ahead, no distinctive cloud bas
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and foot off to slow down. The cont
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When we were issued with our maps,
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In the late afternoon, camp was est
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starboard for base. By turning insi
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and foe to go to market in safety.
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Chapter4No 2 SquadronON RETURN TO D
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In a remarkably short space of time
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SabotageIN OCTOBER 1960 THERE WAS a
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perfect shape, threads and all, but
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Paul MarkSIX MONTHS PRIOR TO THIS,
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sign of the black man by now as he
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I would see close friends suffer fr
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Fire OfficerDURING 1961 I WAS APPOI
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the sites of these repairs.
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In the meanwhile Keith continued wi
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main electrical board in the passag
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tight to see what he must eventuall
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doubts turned to concern because I
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cause. Along with this came many wh
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Air Force Jeppesen manual, found cl
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aircraft on the ground. His efforts
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Gwelo Gliding ClubOUR METEOROLOGIST
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IN JULY 1962 NO 16 PTC commenced th
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from the trailing edge of the wing
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RAF TrappersNO 1 SQUADRON CONTINUED
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Ozzie receiving the Jacklin Trophy
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ground-attack. As a consequence of
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girls escorted by the unmarried guy
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Royal prefix to Rhodesian Air Force
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Group Captain Doug Whyte welcomes S
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frames were covered with stretched
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amused to see that every teddy was
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crrrumping denotations of each clus
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The result was that the CO received
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Our Alouette III helicopters had re
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First terrorist actionFIVE MONTHS E
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Deaths of Barry Matthewsand Sandy T
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THORNHILL’S WORKING HOURS REMAINE
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Chapter5
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definitions were generated; certain
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against their Rhodesian relatives m
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Like these RAF Hunters of No 8 Squa
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Kyle Dam.Once I had flown solo and
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Cargo slinging, hoisting slope land
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scattered chunks of TNT showed that
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came to the river from the east. Th
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HQ building. I noted that the regul
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flew out of the area to dump the PR
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difficulties in command and control
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often a pilot needed to be briefed
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steep forested ravine. Not fully un
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landing in the heavy bush that made
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lone terrorist who had arrived at a
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Aiden DiggedenMOST RHODESIANS KNEW
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above rank insignia on the left arm
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promised.
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‘Happy Wanderer’ when, just aft
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I had not crossed the Zambezi into
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Gwelo River. In retrospect it was o
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the widely varying situations that
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entering Rhodesia from Zambia with
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Ian Smith and Harold Wilson aboard
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water. Once he had been fed and his
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FAC courses and smoke trailsAT THOR
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Missing rhinoAIR HQ RECEIVED AN UNU
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Police Reserve Air WingANOTHER GROU
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Chapter6
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In 1967 the helicopter squadron was
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largest crossing to date. It had be
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extra troops now available, coverin
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Avtur drums.A little later in the d
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to pass. From Shapi Pans two tracke
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The two men dismounted and we conti
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biscuits in preparation for what pr
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The bodies of two terrorists.Only w
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on a location ahead of you.” It w
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Firstly, the dogs had been pulling
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There was a great deal of media cov
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ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1967, I flew to Sip
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This photograph taken by Jerry Dunc
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opportunity to give your family a r
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grumbled, “You’ve had plenty of
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helicopter’s radio I could hear P
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with more to follow after reaching
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line of camps not realising they ha
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escarpment. In the late afternoon h
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The trail meandered in and out of h
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the airflow had opened the dead ter
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the trees.When the RLI and SAS got
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Parliamentary record fcirca 1976. H
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Ten years after my flights with him
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forced him and the whole of Jerry
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dropped a few 600,000-candlepower f
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when we saw Beau plunge into a wate
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Operation MansionAS A CONSEQUENCE O
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ground ahead I could not help seein
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had broken south. The only other tr
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gunner, Senior Technician Butch Phi
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someone shout, “Some silly bugger
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as abarrier along which to detect c
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Casevac of gored rangerEXERCISE MAN
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of Police Terriers at sunrise. Just
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needed foreign currency through the
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that might be so close to the Portu
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senior staff officers visiting his
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Portuguese forces. Hearing this, I
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disregard for human life, but it wa
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Animal incidentsFOR THE MOST PART R
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ground’. They waited tensely for
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then he looked at them again, and s
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Don Annandale.Some time passed when
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was a pleasant enough task it reall
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killing villagers’ cattle in the
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Wing Commander Harold Marsh.Crates
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Roll cloud incidentAFTER THE 4 SQUA
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Engine failureHAROLD GRIFFITHS WAS
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Joint Planning StaffI LOOKED FORWAR
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purpose was to let me know that he
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proved difficult was briefing Ian S
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Pretoria, South Africa at the time.
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Board of InquiryON 23 JULY 1969 I w
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maternity home.As a WWII pilot, Mr
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enjoyed a wonderful time and had le
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Te mainland of Ilha de Moçambique.
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no overhead protection existed for
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makeshift shelters (bashas) that co
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The recce Dornier with 37mm Sneb ro
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Back in JPS I asked John Shaw one d
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It was only when the dressing was r
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Course. In the latter stages of thi
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Exercise BlackjackBY NOW THE AIR FO
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Staff CollegeIN LATE JANUARY 1971 K
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PB receiving Staff College graduati
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Chapter7No 4 SquadronMY POSTING TO
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Gordon and I had been students toge
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My good friend Flight Lieutenant Ro
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Learning recceAS SOON AS I WAS prof
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about how this white man could fit
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realised that such training as I co
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this prize if he dated Henry Jarvie
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from which to launch southward to t
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Joshua Nkomo was the leader of ZAPU
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External recce training4 SQUADRON
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previous day reports and picking up
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continuity of the pathways showed u
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asked that I commend my squadron fo
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been seen to fall from my aircraft.
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debriefing, re-planning and switchi
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Jungle LaneTHERE WAS NEED FOR ALL s
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kit. A very merry party ensued.Some
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Nyamasoto airstrip.The Nyamasoto ai
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Then, following up on an SAS report
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the answer to that problem. They ha
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Beit Bridge rail linkTHE SERIOUS DE
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The de Borchgrave family moved in w
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The Pookie was a light vehicle base
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This photograph is of FAF 5 at Mtok
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A week after Kaunda decided to keep
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I explained to Sandy that I felt ce
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naked. However, whenever there had
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The Peter Simmonds incidentALTHOUGH
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Flight Sergeant BenjiTHE GRASS STRI
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Another Aloe FestivalAT THE END OF
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Encore! You haven’t finished yet!
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In line with the propeller boss of
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I approached JOC Hurricane with the
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Squadron was copied to FAF 3 to all
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was more to do with having become m
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particular terrorist gang asking hi
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LTT thuggery, fashioned replicas of
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Pseudo-terrorist beginningsAS EARLY
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Army. The General invited Ron to re
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the Commander of the Rhodesian Air
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Trojan characteristicsTHANKS TO SUP
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SAS ops in TeteUP UNTIL AUGUST 1973
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routes and terrorist camps covering
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The Trojan noise covered that of th
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strength. Otherwise regrouping occu
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flying in to take them home. For th
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Up until this action helicopters ha
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amongst large trees within the rock
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to areas from which they had fled i
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Trojans into remote airstrips at ni
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Improving tacticsTEN MONTHS PRIOR T
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quick reaction tactic, ground force
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issues were raised in the Air Strik
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were all tuned to different channel
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Tribesmen were placed in the fortif
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Odds and sodsIN SOME AVIATION MAGAZ
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FAC errors and successesCHRIS WEINM
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had just encountered. For Chris Wei
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to south using front gun and SNEB.
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helmet). There was no option but to
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southwest, as judged by the sun’s
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New offensive trialsOUR ASSOCIATION
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PLANNING. This sortie was planned a
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1AK and 1ZP as written, ONE ALPHA K
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mixture of deep-red flame billowing
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Operation MarbleNEXT MORNING I WAS
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cavalryman, which in his view place
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If I spotted one coming up, my plan
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did not see the bigger target oppor
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hear and see the jets. Nevertheless
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find out because, during our walk t
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a Dakota. Four helicopters, two Tro
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safe to fly the aircraft. This airc
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1. We were ordered by SDO New Sarum
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Hunter commandersTHE OFFICER WHO BL
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Norman Walsh
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Rich BrandRob Gaunt spent some time
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Army claims air kills4 SQUADRON PRO
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Gungwa mountainFOLLOWING A BREAK AT
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Strela missilemissile launcherA sen
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Pre-mod (top)—engine fully expose
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Tree-ship Fireforce.I directed the
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none of us had yet realised that we
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3. Approximately 15 ters seen to fa
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initiated an action that ran smooth
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In all actions the K-Car orbited to
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mess of things when he forced rank
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ZIPRA plans upsetSPECIAL BRANCH IN
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Sumo Jarvie.Helicopter technicians
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CeasefireALTHOUGH I WAS IN THE fiel
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Rhodesia had often been dangerously
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FirelightersWHENEVER I VISITED CSIR
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money to start new lives.The Island
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intelligence that would allow pre-e
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Brown Jobs versus Blue Jobs
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Doctored radios and ammunitionFOR A
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Cocky BeneckeALONG WITH MANY OTHER
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training was complete, so I arrange
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lay in them.Not all of Cocky’s re
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with his force at a small Police ba
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Lull before the stormFOLLOWING FAIL
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Standing: John Blythe-Wood, PB, Pet
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FOUR MONTHS EARLIER, ON 25 AUGUST 1
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Government.The SB selection of Nhar
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Lourenço Marques), forced ZIPRA in
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Return of ZANLAIN EARLY JANUARY 197
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Lynx ferryIT WAS AT THIS TIME that
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with a resident South African Army
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happened, Dave and his wide-eyed Fr
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diversion, but only in dire emergen
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flying Trojans had taught me a thin
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Leg 4 was to Mombassa, the next hig
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SNEB rocket pods, bombs, Frantans,
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Tol Janeke (left) and Rob McGregor
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Rob McGregor’s illustration, cut
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kilometres south of his elevated po
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a relatively large surface area and
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Patchen explorerFOR A LONG TIME I h
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War spreads and hots upBY APRIL 197
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of Honour student of No 19 PTC) who
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discussed later).This period of tra
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Operation SandIN A TOP-SECRET EXCHA
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The first two individuals might not
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I instructed Black section to engag
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what Mike did not record in his pil
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group of CTs that had broken throug
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Upon firing each cluster of TNT (th
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Chapter8
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be well behind the aircraft at the
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Being streamlined, bombs descend di
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Schematic diagram of the Alpha bomb
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suffered little damage on impact, w
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This photo shows the first half of
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When approaching target on the assi
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CS pelletsMOST FIREFORCE ACTIONS OC
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Within an hour of the call I met wi
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A Canberra photo-recce sortie was r
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extended and full left aileron was
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Roofless protection pens.At about t
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Vic CookON 20 DECEMBER 1976, THERE
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SAS externalsFOR SOME TIME DURING T
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of transport, thereby turning the d
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Canberras join FireforceSEVEN DAYS
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converted three minutes to somethin
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SchulieCAPTAIN CHRIS SCHULENBURG, K
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Madula PanRADIO INTERCEPTS GAVE WAR
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collected by the G-Car that took us
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Peter (right) is seen here with 3 S
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FLOT DETAILS: Two Selous Scouts mor
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Back at Madula Pan, fire from the g
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fraction of the followup air weapon
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Prototype sixteen-gallon units were
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Golf ProjectIN PROJECT FOXTROT WE A
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pressure gas in a heaving EXplosion
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Inspection the hole from the small
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Cavalry FireforceIN MARCH 1977, OZZ
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even when they passed through tree
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rounds fired from 100 metres. He wa
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From my viewpoint, the most obvious
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When General Templar took control o
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unnecessary antagonism that develop
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safe turnabout, he flew into rising
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Dakota commencing its take-off run.
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the darts. So, as soon as the Golf
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and a water target was best suited
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Salisbury recceIN AUGUST 1977, ZANL
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5. Hunters strafe area ‘A’ alon
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Preparing to attack external basesB
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situations that might afect long-ra
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a small staff would cruise around a
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Op Dingo briefingOPERATION DINGO WA
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from the target that was a little u
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was heading north for a second vall
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man, me, whose instructions were ei
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taken early retirement from the Air
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simply taking action without my hav
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Helicopters in the Admin Base ready
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more than one hour.I enjoyed flying
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PB’s one-man Ops Centre at Tembue
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OPERATION DINGO COST ZANLA IN exces
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Operation VirileUNLIKE THE OPERATIO
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Black FridayMANY FIREFORCE ACTIONS
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even when they had a fair idea of t
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well screened by trees standing bet
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Senator Chief Chirau and Reverend N
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Norah SeearDURING MARCH 1978 I WAS
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RAR FireforcesWHEN FIREFORCES FIRST
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Colonel Ron Reid-Daly in particular
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the suspension cable and oriented s
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KatoogDURING MY VISITS TO CSIR in P
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severely wounded that they were una
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Superb handling of the situation by
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Philippa BerlynPHILIPPA BERLYN (MAR
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Final tracker dogs trialI HAD JUST
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More enemy reversalsZIPRA HAD BEEN
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twinkles from intense enemy fire ap
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the Tete Province following the wit
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and K-Cars. The DC7 staggered over
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The whole helicopter force lifted o
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Having no option but to get the air
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Return to ChimoioTEN MONTHS HAD PAS
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John HERNLEY. Place of residence—
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Operation GatlingBEFORE OCTOBER 197
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crossed the Zambezi River. Their sp
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bringing in more and more casualtie
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help so the helicopters beat a sens
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Mulungushi and MboromaMOUNTAIN GUTU
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Moatize hangarEVER SINCE BUSH COVER
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Chapter9
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claimed that they had huge support
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realised immediately that we should
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stand-off attacks occurred at night
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against FRELIMO.SAS were about to d
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Luso BomaIN SOUTH WEST AFRICA AND A
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had no problems with the longer ran
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mattresses, the bomb was allowed to
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When the Hunters returned, Richard
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ZIPRA plans revealedDURING MARCH 19
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BACK IN RHODESIA, DETAILED INTELLIG
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already included a navigator for Lu
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home for the night and the SAS assa
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Long after sunrise, the mission com
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The SAS team moved to the border fe
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be a more cost-effective method of
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inexcusable.”By the time General
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Civilian convoys and rail protectio
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British Conservative governmentON 3
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Although this happened to be a genu
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front gate. Unoccupied plots surrou
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lighter now than when they left Rho
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name of Alex Vusa. His capture subs
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much. But the death of Kenneth Kaun
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ZIPRA loses war holdingsALEX VUSA,
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They had not only lost all they had
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This was another overt move to push
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possible because of new thinking by
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On D-Day, now 3 September, a helico
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calibre of weapon proved the Rhodes
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together with an MNR force, they ma
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release prisoners, destroy the exch
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Canberra passing quietly over a noi
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as possible in the Mutasa and Holde
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Rhodesians below, it contained the
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When the assault took place, howeve
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pursuing ZANLA outweighed the advan
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PRIOR TO MY ARRIVAL IN COMOPS, plan
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Moatize bridgesTHE OP MANACLE PLAN
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southern end of the ridge where the
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element for an intended invasion of
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Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Bate.The RLI
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scored against the ZIPRA force, whi
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change in direction occurred. In fo
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CeasefireA TOTAL CEASEFIRE WAS TO c
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Selous Scouts at New Chimoio. The u
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very beginning, it was obvious that
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Dinner with ZIPRAZIPRA COMMANDERS T
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war is over so you do not have to l
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Sir Humphrey Gibbs.The military tri
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Visits to ZANLA Assembly PointsTHE
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work together to establish the new
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ZANLA mujibas.Unlike General Barnar
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Guard of honour.This style of march
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Anderson, M. M. Partington. Centre
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than this.I was having a drink in t
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the conference room.In a stunned st
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Joint High Command HQSETTING UP THE
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even thought the matter through I c
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One of the few officers who remaine
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EpilogueRHODESIA CAME INTO BEING IN
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black folk did not recognise the da
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GlossaryA/S/LADAFAAFJAFSALOAMAAMJam
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MIDMLMMNRNDBOAUOCCOCUOFEMAPACPAFPAT
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eBooks Published by Helion & Compan
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Adventures in my Youth. A German So
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To the Bitter End. The Final Battle
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Over Fields of Fire. Flying the Stu
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Secrets of the Cold War. US Army Eu
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The Battle of Spicheren August 1870
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The Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 Vol
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Rays of the Rising Sun. Japan’s A
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After Stalingrad: The Red Army’s
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‘I wouldn’t want to do it again
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Bullets, Bombs and Cups of Tea Furt
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Remembering the Dragon Lady The U-2
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Advance from Mons 1914: The Experie
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Black Devils March — A Doomed Ody
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History of the British Army Film an
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Striking Back: Britain’s Airborne
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France in Centrafrique: From Bokass
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Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-In
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The Royal Corps of Signals: Unit Hi
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Diary of a Red Devil: By Glider to
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Delta Scout: Ground Coverage Operat
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Out of ActionChris CocksISBN 978190
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Field Marshal Von Manstein: The Jan
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In a Raging Inferno: Combat Units o
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The Campaign in Alsace: August 1870
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Learning from Foreign Wars: Russian
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Mons 1914-1918: The Beginning and t
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Organization of the German State Fo
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Under Himmler’s Command: The Pers
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