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OP PROTEA: Wounded Angolan civilians are treated by SA medics

OP PROTEA: A typical SWAPO trench system

OP PROTEA: Propaganda posters in Xangongo

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• Juliet (Cahama) by air operation.

• Elephant (Chibembe) to be attacked by air assault preceded by air bombardment. Air assault force to comprise of 1 Parachute company with 1 Parachute company in re-serve; destruction teams from Special Forces.

• Phase 3. Capture Yankee (Xangongo) with 4 battle groups (2 mechanised and 2 motorised) and air support; destroy crossing and defend with 1 mechanised combat team, 1 mecha-nised battle group and a motorised battle group.

• Phase 4. Capture Charlie (Ongiva) with 1 mechanised battle group (less elements) and 1 motorised battle group from Yankee, with air support.

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The battle design of the SADF specified 8 phases:

• Phase 1. Actions against the following SWAPO areas:

• Area Bravo (SWAPO North-Western Front Headquarters): to be attacked with 3 compa-nies with Puma and gunship helicopter sup-port.

• Area Blood River (SWAPO Northern Front Headquarters): to be attacked by 2 compa-nies with Puma and gunship helicopter sup-port.

• Area Pig Sty (SWAPO base near Nehone): to be attacked by 1 company with Puma and gunship helicopter support from Blood River.

• External border area operations: to be per-formed by 2 companies

• Phase 2. Neutralise Juliet (Cahama) and Ele-phant (Chibembe):

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2 September 2011 Volume 2, Issue 9

WAR IN ANGOLA

Next Week’s Features

• Foreign Assistance continues with: “Chinese Aid”

• Featured Equipment: The

• Operation Hooper: The 2nd attack on 21 Brigade Part 3

• Memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel I.A. Zhdarkin Part 8

• An SADF ou man looks at conscription in the East German army, Part 9

• OP PROTEA: FAPLA/SWAPO forces

Inside this issue:

Featured Equipment: The RPG-7 rocket launcher 3

Memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel I.A. Zhdarkin, Part 7 4

Operation Hooper: The 2nd attack on 21 Bde Part 2 5

Foreign Assistance - Aid from African countries 6

Angola — Colonial Formation Part 3 8

Conscription in the East German army, Part 8 8

This past week: 24 years ago... 8

Last week’s latest topics on the Forums 12

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Member of a KOEVOET Zulu team inspects his loaded RPG

Country of Origin: USSR/Russia

Caliber: Launcher: 40mm Grenade: 85mm

Action: recoilless launch + rocket booster

Length: Launcher: 650mm Grenade: 925mm

Weight: Launcher, unloaded: 7kg (lb) Grenade: 2.25kg

Velocity: Muzzle velocity: 100 m/s Maximum velocity: 300 m/s

Armour penetration: 320 mm of rolled homogenous armour

Rate of Fire : 4 - 6 rounds/minute

Range: Moving target: 300m Stationery Target: 500m

The RPG-7 is a further de-velopment of the previous RPG-2 antitank grenade launcher. The RPG-7, in its first version, known as RPG-7V, has been adopted by the Soviet army in 1961. The RPG-7 is one of the most common anti-tank weapons in the world, and in Angola, the communist backed forces made exten-sive use of this simple, yet effective weapon. The motor from the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) ignites some 10m from the muzzle and boosts the rocket’s velocity too 300m/s.

A self-destruct device in the piezo-electric fuse deto-nates the rocket after 900m. It has an optical sight with x2.5 magnification and a 13º field of view and range marks at 100m intervals from 200 to 500m. The hollow-charge warhead gives the missile excellent armour penetration for its mass, but it has limited effectiveness against open vehicles (as there is no over-pressure effect) Due to the large amounts of weapons captured by the SADF in successful cross-border operations, this

weapon was used by South African troops in the Border War. • “South African Arms &

Amrour”, Helmoed-Römer Heitman

• Also downloaded from the SADF's Border War, SA-truth.Co.Za, copyright ©Omutumua Oshili - text available under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence 2.0

• For more detailed informa-tion on the RPG-7, see Wikipedia:

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Featured Equipment: The RPG-7 Anti-tank Rocket Launcher

The loaded RPG-7 Anti-tank Rocket Launcher

Specifications

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charge

warhead

gives the

missile

excellent

armour

penetration.”

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“...the

whole

bloody

country is

a toilet...”


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OP PROTEA: SADF officers saluting during the parade before the operation



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did in Spain. In any case, they offered their terri-tory, their bases, etc. and the fascist aces spent their leave there. Therefore, Lubango was already then – when we came there, eleven years after independ-ence, still a relatively clean little town. Of course, things there were not what they had been formerly under the Portuguese and were only the still visible traces of a formerly nor-mal, decent life.

Thus under the Portu-guese, the blacks washed the asphalt and the sidewalk with brush

And another point, as we learned, was that during the Second World War, there was in this same Lubango, a sanatorium for fascist airmen – an interesting fact. In other words, this was a sana-torium for fascist aces of the Luftwaffe.

– Where were they ac-tually fighting?

– What difference does it make where they actu-ally fought if they were sent there to rest, maybe from Rommel’s Africa Corps? Because Portu-gal was, although neu-tral, nonetheless a Fas-cist state, because Sala-zar ruled there as Franco

and soap. Moreover, they were allowed into the city between five and six in the morning, where they cleaned up, and swept these asphalt cov-ered sidewalks. After all this, they would be obliged to leave.

Continued next week, in Part 8...

Lubango, a sanatorium for fascist airmen...

ior interpreter told: «Well then? I am sending you to the far south. You Piotr Ivanovski, you will go to the 19th brigade to Mulondo. As for you, Igor, you will serve in the “Kvadrat” Air Defence battalion, attached to this brigade». And we two departed and flew away to the south of Angola.

– What planes did you use?

– Well the following mili-tary models flew: the Iliushin-76s, Antonov-12s, Antonov-22s, An-tonov-24s and the An-tonov-26s, the so-called “truck.” As for the An-tonov-24s and Antonov-26s, they had the special role of transporting cer-tain bosses or still some-thing else. And the An-tonov-12s and Iliushin-76s flew similar mis-sions.

And as for us, we flew to

This is the seventh part of a 50-part series taken from “We did not see it even in Afghanistan. Mem-oirs of a participant of the Angolan war (1986-1988)”, by Lieutenant Colonel Igor Anatolevich Zhdarkin Well, such moments in the commando training center were preparations where some sort of ac-tivities were organized for the Angolans – mili-tary rifle practice, driving of vehicles, etc., etc. And please excuse me, the simple necessities, where to go «to make water».. I asked – how do you get to the toilet? To this, I heard – please, go wherever you want – the whole bloody country is a toilet… I was rather shocked.

So we worked there for two weeks. When were had finally finished the whole job, the most sen-

Lubango – the center of Uila province. We were met, of course, and taken to the Soviet mis-sion. The surroundings were very beautiful – basin between hills. The climate was good. We were on a plateau 1700 meters above sea level. It wasn’t cold in winter – July/August was for them winter, with a tempera-ture the same as ours at that time, while summers there were not very hot. This was because Lubango and its sur-rounding area were in this basin.

Of course, this climate was not the same throughout the entire province because liter-ally only 100 kilometers from Lubango, there was an entirely different cli-mate. Our 19th brigade, for its part, was situated on the banks of the Cunene River, one of the largest rivers of Angola.

Memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel I.A. Zhdarkin, Part 7

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Historical Account: Operation Hooper: The second attack on 21 Brigade, Part 2

“Finally an

Olifant

drove up to

the bunker

and fired a

HESH

round into

it...”


OP PROTEA: One of the FAPLA soldiers encountered by platoons 1 and 2 of Bravo company on the Kunene riverbank getting evacu-ated

OP PROTEA: A small girl with strong Portuguese blood in her veins at Xangongo


At least sixty had been killed...

Extract taken with the author's permission from: “War In Angola - The Final South Afri-can Phase“, by Hel-moed-Römer Heitman.

At 13h25 Unita reported contact with Fapla at the northern outpost. 4 SAI was then 2 000 metres from its first objective, the southern outpost. The artillery was then shelling some vehicles seen moving in the 21 Brigade area, while Fapla's M-46 had joined the BM-21s shelling the old dummy artillery posi-tion.

4 SAI moved up to the southern outpost, which turned out to be 1000 metres farther north than expected. It soon drew fire from a BM-21 on the west bank, which proved difficult to neutralise as it

was not a registered target. There was not much opposition on this objective, and 4 SAI be-gan firing on the northern out-post group by 14h36, before moving on to it with the 3rd Regular Battalion.

The force moved right through an anti-tank minefield in front of the Fapla po-sition at 14h50. One Ratel detonated a landmine and lost a wheel. There were no casualties from the ex-plosion, and the Ratel continued with the at-tack. No other mines were hit.

This attack met stiffer resistance from the Fapla infantry. One group of twenty Fapla infantry in a bunker fired repeatedly at the ad-vancing tanks with their rifles, seeking cover in their bunker from time to

time. Finally an Olifant drove up to the bunker and fired a HESH round into it through one of the firing ports, which caused the bunker to collapse and killed all twenty. Trenches some 200 metres ahead of the force were mortared, but no activity was seen there.

4 SAI moved on, looking out for emplaced tanks. At 15h14 one of the tanks re-ported vehicle movement and engaged. Smoke and fire could be seen after the shot, but nothing was confirmed. 4 SAI now continued mov-ing in 200 metre bounds, still not meeting any real opposition, although F Squadron, on the left, dealt with about forty Fapla infantry as it ad-vanced. About 15h50 the last Fapla defenders had withdrawn to the main

brigade positions or fled. At least sixty had been killed in the position.

61 Mech had meanwhile deployed in its cut-off positions on '61 Koppie' north of the Dala source and on the high ground south of the 21 Brigade positions by 15h28.

Fapla was by now aware of the South African in-tentions. At 15h15, 59 Brigade asked 25 Bri-gade to provide artillery support for 21 Brigade. The Forward Com-mand Post had meanwhile also ordered 16 Brigade - then at Tumpo - to send five tanks to support 21 Brigade. These were

reported, but could not be seen by the tanks of 4 SAI.

The South Africans and Unita were just preparing for the attack on the main 21 Brigade posi-tion, when they were warned of an approach-ing air strike. The fight-ers arrived over the area at 15h59 and carried out an inaccurate attack in an area that had been briefly shelled from the 59 positions, perhaps as target indica-tion for the aircraft. Other attacks during the day went in on the positions of either 25 or 59 Brigade, drawn by white phosphorus bombs fired into them by Romeo

Battery.

The 4 SAI-Unita attack then proceeded, the force swinging west at the north-ern outpost to advance on the main positions. One Ratel detonated an anti-per-sonnel mine, which punctured a tyre. 4 SAI then suffered a setback when three tanks of F Squadron threw tracks during a sharp turn on a slope. The rest of the

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OP PROTEA: The bridge over the river Kunene just outside Xangongo


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to obtain large

and small-scale

assistance

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Zambia provided similar services. So did Tanza-nia, various other African countries as well as the OAU. As was the case with the last mentioned, various African countries provided aid to all three liberation movements under the argument that all three were fighting the Portuguese. Even after the three movements had started fighting each other, some of this three-part aid had been contin-ued despite the illegality of the situation.

Holden Roberto was a man that, as the leader of the FNLA, was well-travelled from the begin-ning. He felt at home in all the markets. He man-aged to obtain large and small-scale assistance from many countries, from America, across

The seventh article on Foreign Assistance con-tinues:

It is obvious from before that the FNLA had Zaire to thank for their assis-tance. The movement had been created there and had reached a level of maturity. From there the UPA launched their attacks into Angola from 1971 and returned after-wards to lick their wounds. There their sol-diers were trained, their weapon supply built up, their axes grinded, their offices established, and their army mobilised. President Mobuto pro-vided private funding and weapons to the FNLA for many years. What this amounted to may be recorded somewhere, but this is still not gen-eral knowledge.

Europe and the Middle-East, to China.

Next to the FNLA, UNITA was a much hum-bler sight. UNITA neces-sarily boasted that it was a “home grown” organi-sation which was never controlled from across the border. In time UNITA did eventually also obtain some foreign aid. The OAU acknowl-edged UNITA and there-fore had allotted part of its aid to UNITA although it was never sufficient. Other than that UNITA probably had Zambia to thank most because they had always been wel-come there. Most aid from other countries, Red China amongst oth-ers, reached UNITA through Zambia.

Foreign Assistance — Aid from African countries

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• Phase 5. Actions against SWAPO in area Tango (command post area) with 6 companies and gun-ship helicopter support.

• Phase 6. Harass the deep lines of communications and destroy Whisky (Matala) by Special Forces operation or air operation.

• Phase 7. Consolidate and stabilise.

• Phase 8. Evacuate and maintain control.

D-Day. If 14 days were allowed for preparations of the force, the earliest date for D-Day would be 24 August 1981, unless the artillery become avail-able earlier.

The planning from SWATF was pre-sented to Army Headquarters, which, in turn presented it to the Chief of the Defence Force and the State Security Board for final approval. These actions

(Continued from page 1) occurred during beginning of July 1981. The final presentation was done and final approval was only obtained on 21 August 1981.

Sector 10 planning started on 20 July 1981 and was done by the Task Force commanders, Colonels Joubert and Benade, and the Battle Group Com-manders, Commandants Serfontein, Hills, Dippenaar and staff. On 24 July the plans were presented whereupon the task force planning started.

Task Force Alpha’s planning was done by Commandants de Vries and Ferreira and staff. On 28 July the final coordinating conference was held.

On 29 July detailed plans on battle group level were presented to the Chief of the Army, the General Com-manding SWATF and the Sector 10 Commander, with staff from every headquarters represented.

OPERATION PROTEA continues next week...

OP PROTEA: The TOP SECRET orders to Task Force Alpha to proceed with the operation

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OP PROTEA: The band in action during the morning parade


“...sien ek

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direk op

die

Koporaal

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OP PROTEA: A Russian T34 tank that lost track of its bearings

The second attack on 21 Brigade, Part 2

recovery.

21 Brigade was mean-while reporting that it was running short of ammunition and that this was causing disquiet among its troops.

The reinforcements From 16 Brigade had used the presence of the MiGs to be-gin their move without fear of artillery fire, and were already approaching the Dala bridge at 17h00. 61 Mech tried to impede

(Continued from page 5) their movement with mortar fire, but the tanks went on undisturbed, crossed the bridge at 17h07 and passed west of the cut-off position. By 17h38 they were only 1 500 metres from the 21 Brigade positions. Ele-ments had by now also begun to move from 59 Brigade's positions to assist 21 Brigade. At 17h42, the 16 Brigade tanks were just south of the position and swung east, causing a mild hic-cup in the 4 SAI attack plan. Before anything

could be done to counter this unexpected thrust, however, they swung north again and joined up with 21 Brigade in its positions.

Several MiGs attacked 4 SAI at 17h46 and dropped bombs near the tanks. One tank suffered a cracked gunsight.

Continued next week, In Part 3...

Uittreksel uit “Ag man dit ‘WAS’ lekker in die Army” - van Danie Matthee

gend kom een van die Koporale voor die hek met sy motor tot stil-stand en ewe paraat neem ons ons posisies in . Terwyl ek nog met die Koporaal praat begin hy op die ander wag skree. Toe ek na die wag kyk om te sien waaroor die Kopo-raal so ‘n bohaai op-skop, sien ek dat die ou sy geweer, wat

gespan en van safety af is, direk op die Koporaal gerig het. Natuurlik het die Kopo-raal ons name gevat (nommer, rang, naam) en is ons aangegee by die offisier aan diens.

Onder Korporaal H Matthee

1992

Ons was op wagdiens en die ou wat saam met my hekwag was, was een van die paraatste ouens wat ek al ooit gesien het. Wanneer ‘n voertuig die kamp wil betree moet die een wag voor die voertuig staan en sy wapen gerig hou op die voertuig se enjin terwyl die ander wag die voertuig deur-soek. As ek nog reg kan onthou het elke wag vyf rondtes in sy magasyn gehad. Op daardie dag was dit my plig om die voertuig te deursoek en die ander ou moes voor die voertuig staan met sy geweer gerig op die en-jin. Daardie og-



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OP PROTEA: Emergency resup-ply by C130 Hercules of spare Ratel engines for 61 Mech on D minus 1 at assembly area at Ruacana on eve of the battle (Roland de Vries)



This past week, 24 Years Ago, In South-East Angola...

“Schwedt.

Its name

struck fear

into every

soldier’s

heart.”

OP PROTEA: Commandant Ep Van Lill inspection the dry river bed to access a safe point of crossing for combat group 10 on its way to Humbe on D-day

from the unit to the Offi-cer on Duty. You were marched to the guard-room, where the previ-ous O.o.D handed over. From this point on, your O.o.D. was the ranking officer in the unit, and the unit under the control of the guard; “PFs” had usually gone home by then. Like us, they had a 6-hourly cycle, 2 hours on, 4 hours off, but unlike us they did not have 4 hours’ sleep. Their cycle was 2 hours’ beat, 2 hours’ sleep, 2 hours’ preparedness [Bereitschaft] in which they had to sit waiting for their shift. Mostly they had to scrub and clean during this period.

CB [Arrest] could be for several days, during which you were locked in cells in the guard-house at the gate, under the control of the guard-officer. During the day you did such strenuous and cruel tasks as prun-ing thorny rose-trees without gloves! [Peter Tannhoff]. Time spent in CB was added to the end of your training. This

By Phillip Vietri

Conscientious objectors were put into the “construction sol-diers” [Bausoldaten], called “Spatis” after the little golden spade on their shoulder boards. They did backbreaking work building roads, run-ways etc. They were particularly harshly treated by the system, which encouraged others to hold them in con-tempt, though many ordi-nary soldiers admired then for the courage of their convictions. Being a Spati meant that in gen-eral you never had ac-cess to higher education. The only people to re-fuse any kind of military service at all were the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Guard duty also had some significant differ-ences. Unlike in most SADF camps, it was round the clock, 24 hours of duty. Usually at about 17:30 they would tree aan and be in-spected. Then followed Vergatterung, a moment of silence in which au-thority was transferred

meant, as far as I can make out, that after your intake had cleared out, you spent the next two weeks [without pay] cleaning the building into which the new rowers would move. Then, when they arrived and the next cycle began, you would serve your extra days before klaaring out. There was only one DB in the DDR, in a town in the north near the Polish border. Schwedt. Its name struck fear into every soldier’s heart. The very few descrip-tions of it that one can find make it sound like a slightly milder version of Lohatla, which wasn’t even a jail, except that at Schwedt they worked in industrial plants. Schwedt was said to break a man within a month, so that he never recovered, never smiled again. There is little hope, given the shortage of info and destruction of records, of ever really knowing what went on there.

Continued next week, in Part 9…

An SADF ou man looks at conscription in the East German army, Part 8


by Fapla to a flank in an attempt to engage Papa Bty, but this was ineffec-tive....

Friday, 28 August 1987: 47 and 59 Bdes reaches the Lomba River

While the rockets from Papa Bty slowed them down, Fapla's 47 and 59 Brigades had, neverthe-less, reached a position 2 to 3 km from the Lomba....

Thursday, 27 August 1987: Papa Bty (MRLs) engage 47 and 59 Bdes

Elements of 47 and 59 Bdes, identified while moving over the high ground near Mucobola, are engaged by Papa Bty with its MRLs from a position thirteen km away, south of the Lomba River. The rock-ets set a tank on fire, killed 20 and wounded 96 Fapla soldiers. Some BM-21s were deployed

Saturday, 29 August 1987: 20 SA Bde cre-ated

The deployed SADF force had now grown much larger, and it was decided to group it into an ad hoc 20 Bde, re-ferred forthwith as 20 SA Bde. Refer to the Orders of Battle for 1987 to view the composition of the brigade....

Saturday, 29 August 1987: All the forward




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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SADF AND

SWATF!

Write the names of the units represented by the flashes below each one.

Find the answers in next week’s issue!

The Provost School was formed on 23 October 1979 after Military Base Wonder-

boom was closed and the Provost Training Centre was renamed. Provost School remained at Won-derboom until September/October 1981 when the entire unit moved to Voor-trekkerhoogte. It was de-ployed in a COIN role in 1986 into the Mamelodi East area of Pretoria and Tembisa, Johannesburg. It was closed in 1988.

The Kaffrarian Rifles was raised in East London on December 20, 1883. It was

mobilised for the Anglo South African War in 1899. During the German South West African campaign the regiment served under Gen-eral Louis Botha. During the 1939-45 war, it was part of 4 SA Brigade in North Africa and was captured with 2 SA Division at Tobruk in 1942. It also served in the Border War, fighting in Namibia, Angola and Zambia.

41/911 Battal-ion was formed in 1977 as 41 Battalion in Sector 40, Windhoek, and

renamed to 911 Battalion in 1980 as part of 91 Bri-gade, SWATF. It was trans-ferred back to Sector 40 in 1987. It deployed compa-nies to Owambo from 1980, and took part in several externals. From 1984 one company was permanently deployed to 51 Battalion on a rotation basis. From 1988 it was involved in the train-ing of National Servicemen.

Last week’s unit flashes:

Fapla brigade began to advance rapidly

All the Fapla forward brigades suddenly began advncing rapidly. 47 Bde and Tac Grp 1 moved west along the northern bank of the Lomba. 59 Bde moved east to the Cuzizi, and crossed it using TMM bridging equipment. 21 Bde moved from its position nine km south-east of the Cunzumbia source, south towards the Unita bridge over the Lomba, some 2 km east of the Lomba-Cunzumbia con-fluence. 16 Bde and the Tac Grp accompanying it moved eastwards....

Sunday, 30 August 1987: Papa Bty (MRLs)

(Continued from page 8) and Quebec Bty (G-5s) redeploys

Papa Bty (MRLs) had moved to a position 12 km south-east of the Lomba-Cuzizi conflu-ence, and then, during the night of 30 to 31 Aug, another 20 km to the west, taking up position from where it could en-gage 47 Bde. Quebec Bty (G-5s) deployed to a position 18 km south-east of the Lomba-Cunzumbia confluence. Both batteries could now reach any of the three Fapla brigades in the area....

Monday, 31 August 1987: Papa Bty (MRLs) fired its first FULL salvo

At 07h50, Papa Bty used

its full capacity of 8 MRLs and fired its first full salvo of Operation Moduler, temporarily pinning 47 Bde down at the source of the Lomba....

Monday, 31 August 1987: G-5's fire first rounds in anger

The eight G-5's of Que-bec Bty were authorised to fire their first eighty rounds in anger at 21h00, engaging the positions of 21 Bde just north of the Lomba....

Tuesday, 1 September 1987: Impala Mk II's on standy at Rundu The first combat aircraft to be deployed were four Impala Mk IIs based at Rundu for close air sup-port work at the begin-

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OP PROTEA: A Special Jeep used by Colonel Jan Breyten-bach’s pathfinders.

ning of September. These were increased to ten by 24 September....

Wednesday, 2 Septem-ber 1987: Main body of 61 Mech Bn Gp arrived 61 Mech had moved to the north in packets, the main body arriving at the Lugengue forward refuel-ling point on the 2nd of September.....

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me. There were masses of WWII and even WWI (No. 1 Mk 3 rifles) weapons, brand new, in original packing cases at 81 TSD A Group where ...

RE: Bren and Browning 7,62 conversions by Jochen

Whn I joined the SADf in '68 I can remember that as a Rower one of the first jobs we got was to draw some Brens, and clean them , these were brand new never been fired and all were date stamped 1942....

Just finished painting: the first Ratel-20 in 1/110th scale by johansamin

We have just finished off the first metal 1/110 scale Ratel 20s. For a model that is only a mere 6.5cm long, they sure look great! The interesting thing is that the Ratel is actually both higher...

RE: Sielkunde by pfv

Dis mos baie waar, ens. ens. 'n PF Korporaal (veral die soort

62 Mech by Sean Wilson (guest)

I was in Op Moduler 1988, call sign 83

RE: Bridge 14 by Bradley (guest)

Brian Good to hear you were there. When youhad the road block we were parked with the guns a little South of your posi-tion on the right hand side of the road. You would have been with Stone or Pols...

RE: Bren and Browning 7,62 conversions by Jochen

I really saw some really old kit being used by the SADF during my time, our first issue of web-bing was WWII issue, our bom verbande was stamped " Union of South Afrca - 1941. During Operation Savan...

RE: Bren and Browning 7,62 conversions by pfv

Hi, Jochen, and thanks for your comments. They fill in a hole for

wat na jarre nog steeds Korpo-raal was) het sy natuurlike vlak bereik. Die dienspligtige aan die ander kant was maar Korporaal net omdat h...

RE: OP PROTEA by host

I will be having a beer at Pirates in Plumstead from 17h30 on Friday, 26 Aug. You are wel-come to join me... Johan

RE: Sielkunde by ctgbuff

mn, ja, dit is bekend dat die ou SAW deur die korporaal beheer is. Sien, alle stront rol mos van bo af en stop by hom om uit te deel. Die ergste 'korporaal' was 'n PF korporaal ('n Staande Mag) uitre...

RE: Sielkunde by pfv

Haai, ctgbuff. Jy't 'n besonderse slim en subtiele Korporaal-sielkundige geken. Ek was self 'n Korporaal, maar kan nie sê dat ek ooit só slim was met die ondervraging van my pasiënte nie!

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