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

[colin traveller]

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[BravoZulu]

Note the sheepskin (?) on the lower legs of the soldiers on the left?? Any thoughts as to what it is for?

Kneepads before kneepads were thought of. Long periods spent kneeling in the bush in ambush positions and the hard packed earth. I'm guessing it also helps with the razor edged kunai grasses that had to be pushed through. This is conjecture on my part mate, from my reading on the Bush Wars

 

[RL64RL]

Kneepads before kneepads were thought of. Long periods spent kneeling in the bush in ambush positions and the hard packed earth. I'm guessing it also helps with the razor edged kunai grasses that had to be pushed through. This is conjecture on my part mate, from my reading on the Bush Wars

Seems reasonable to me, BZ. Thanks.

 

[RL64RL]

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Really appreciate this video. I've recently spent time learning more about Rhodesia and it's history -- missed this one somehow.
Cheers!
RL

 

[BravoZulu]

Operation Snoopy: RLI and SAS vs ZANLA in 25 camps over 32 square kilometers. Several hundred ZANLA killed and 2 Rhodesian casualties.

 

[BravoZulu]

Rhodesian BSAP anti-terrorism unit

B.S.A.P Support Unit "Black Boots" Zulu Alpha Troop Section Commanders (1978)

 

[BravoZulu]

Rhodesia

Captured Soviet-made BTR

Selous Scouts

 

[BravoZulu]

Rhodesia:

Eland-90

MAP75 Armoured Personnel Carrier

Selous Scouts

Selous Scouts "Pig"

 

[BravoZulu]

Rhodesia

BSAP in the Bush War

Last march of the RLI (Rhodesian Light Infantry). Totsiens, Rhodesia

Independence Day Parade, Salisbury 1970

Selous Scouts flying a FRELIMO flag on a cross border raid

 

[BravoZulu]

Rhodesian SAS Sgt Andy Chait with a camouflaged FN FAL and Trilux optic, 1974-1975.

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[uktabber]

Excellent!! GREAT photos of the lads down south!! Thanks for posting BZ! ?

 

[RL64RL]

Excellent!! GREAT photos of the lads down south!! Thanks for posting BZ! ?

Right!!?? A+, BZ! Thank you!

 

[BravoZulu]

Rhodesian SAS

Selous Scout

Eland during Operation Miracle

 

[BravoZulu]

Grey's Scout

 

[BravoZulu]

C Squadron 22 Special Air Service (SAS) of the Rhodesian Security Forces, during the last years of the Bush War, c. 1978 - 1979

 

[BravoZulu]

Portuguese caçadores (paratroops) armed with AR-10 rifles during an exercise patrol. Portuguese Angola, c. 1970

 

[BravoZulu]

Rhodesian SAS operator with a RPD light machine gun and his backpack in a trench, Mapai, Gaza Province, Mozambique, Operation Uric against Zimbabwe insurgents and Mozambican troops, (September 1st - 8th) during the Rhodesian Bush War, 1979

 

[BravoZulu]

Angolan T-55 main battle tank from the People’s Armed Forces of the Liberation of Angola: destroyed after three HEAT (High Explosive Anti Tank) rounds fired by a Ratel 90 infantry fighting vehicle of the South African Defence Forces: during Operation Hooper, c. late 1987 - 1988.

 

[BravoZulu]

Hawker Hunter FGA9 R1258 of (No. 1 Squadron) from the Rhodesian Air Force, over bushland and Lake Kariba, during the Rhodesian Bush War against the Zimbabwean insurgency, c. 1970 - 1979

 

[BravoZulu]

Eland-90 armoured car (armed with a 90 mm cannon) of the Rhodesian Armoured Corps „Black Devils“, during a patrol against the Zimbabwe insurgency in the eastern bushland of Rhodesia, during the bush war, c. 1975 - 1979.