Photos Angolan Civil Wars, Rhodesian Bush Wars & South African Border Wars

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RLI MAG58 gunner during the Rhodesian bush war

 

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Angolan T-34/85M tank after being destroyed by SADF units

 

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RLI troops welcoming Prince Charles and Lord Soames to Rhodesia

 

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I remember hearing it had been the biggest tank battle since WW 2

" The battle was the largest engagement of the Angolan conflict and the biggest conventional battle on the African continent since World War II.[12]"

Battle of Cuito Cuanavale - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Rhodesia

 

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Rhodesian Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter gunship, taking off from a landing zone, with a improvised MRAP in the (background), during the bush war

 

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Rhodesian Sapper, 1st Engineer Battalion: with his FN FAL, in a Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter

 

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Rhodesia

 

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South African Recce with a AR 70

 

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South African Olifant Mk.1A from 61 Mechanised Battalion Group, 20 Brigade in Angola 1987/88

 

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Cuban soldier in Angola photographed by Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras, 1982

 

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Soviet Spetsnaz operatives in Angola (1985)

 

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Rare picture of a Rhodesian soldier firing a Para FAL variant, sometime during the Bush War

 

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South African soldier during the latter years of the Border War

 

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South African soldier in Oshivelo, South West Africa (Namibia) - 1984.

 

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South West African Territorial Force soldier of 101 Battalion on patrol in Kaokoland during the Border War, 1981

 

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Rhodesian SAS readying to board an Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter of the Rhodesian Air Force - Operation Dingo, against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army at Chimoio, and Tembue, Mozambique, November 23th - 25th, 1977

 

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Policemen of Koevoet examining a captured 9K32 Strela-2 SAM launcher during the South African Border War, 1980s

 

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“The Essentials” South African Border War, early 1980s

 

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Koevet policemen posing for a picture in Namibia during the Border War, 1980s