Archive for November, 2011

And, just so that we get the record perfectly straight. The pictures were posted to a page by your request and pending your approval. -------------- Mike-- With the resurgence of interest in the border wars, I get regular requests for the use of my photos. Inasmuch as I am producing Kindle and iPad photo albums to supplement next year's reprint of my book "Koevoet," I have to look at how reproduction of my work in other places might affect future sales of those. Perhaps you can tell me a little more about your book and the photos you'd like to use. Regards, Jim ------------------------------ I then put up the page and pix to show what I had in mind, and all I got in reponse was your tirade, so it was all deleted. re Placing the pix on FB, that was merely an opportunistic storage location that was used on the spur of the moment. No text or claims of any kind were posted with your pictures. ------------------------------------- But, I did respond as such :- ------------------------------------- Jim Sorry bout that, it is in the back, till I chatted to you ------------------------------------- Pointing out that while I had compiled the page for private viewing, it was not linked to the index for casual visitors to see. Anyway, if I have, as it would seem, created offence, please accpt my sincierest apologies, all your pix have been deleted and I shall consider the matter closed. And re, any aspect of claims of glory on my side, please refer to my web site http://digitalsidewalk.co.za/disclaimer.htm I think the fact that this thread exists in the first place, it will become blatantly obvious to anyone that reads this thread from the top down, that I was in the process of compiling a web site, and actively sought your permission, and gave you a private link to a preview of what I had in mind as per your request, and that no dishonesty or infringement of rights was intended. My postings do not, to the best of my knowledge, contain anything that is either plagarised or an infringement on copyright. I am responding here in public forum becuase you brough a matter that I had regarded as settled into this forum. If you had any issues, a simple email would have resolved it ages ago. Cheeze

AMAZING collection! I am interested...as soon as I can afford to make you an offer! ;-)

AMAZING collection! I am interested...as soon as I can afford to make you an offer! ;-)

My entire collection of books can be see here: http://www.warinangola.com/default.aspx?tabid=590&forumid=2&postid=1435&view=topic

I have this entire collection for sale. (Not selling the books one by one) How much do you offer for all the books? Transport/Shipping is the buyer’s responsibility. E-mail: randyenergy@vodamail.co.za RHODESIA: Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of Rhodesia 1965-80. Peter G Locke, Peter DF Cooke. ISSN-0-473-02413-6 Rhodesian Air Force: A Brief History 1947-1980. W.A. Brent. 1987. ISSN-0-620-11805-9 Never Quite a Soldier: A Rhodesian Policeman’s War 1971-1982. David Lemon. 2006. ISBN-1-919854-21-5 Badges and Insignia of the Rhodesian Security Forces 1980-1980. A.J.Arniel. ISBN-0620107-448 Sabotage and Torture: As told to Barbara Cole. 1988. Cry Zimbabwe: Independence – Twenty Years On. Peter Stiff. 2000. ISBN-0-919854-02-07 Assignment Selous Scouts: Inside story of a Rhodesian Special Branch Officer. Jim Parker. 2006. ISBN-919854-14-2 The Elite: The story of the Rhodesian Special Air Service. Barbara Cole. 1984. Hardcover. ISBN-0-620-07421-3 The Elite: The story of the Rhodesian Special Air Service. Barbara Cole. 1985. Softcover. ISBN-0-620-08517-7 Selous Scouts: Top Secret War. Lt. Col. Ron Reid Daly as told to Peter Stiff. 1982. Hardcover. ISBN-0-620-05771-8 Selous Scouts: Top Secret War. Lt. Col. Ron Reid Daly as told to Peter Stiff. 1983. Paperback. ISBN-0-620-06674-1 2 FireForce: One Man’s War in The Rhodesian Light Infantry. Chris Cocks. 2001. ISBN-1-919874-32-1 Serving Secretly: An Intelligence Chief on Record-Rhodesia into Zimbabwe 1964-1981. Ken Flower, John Murray. 1987. ISBN-0-7195-4438-6 The War Diaries of Andre Dennison. JRT Wood. 1989. ISBN-0-620-13545-X Of Land and Spirits. Alan Thrush. 1997. ISBN-0-620-20913-5 The Zambesi Salient: Conflict in Southern Africa. AL J. Venter. 1974. ISBN-0-86978-089-1 Survival Course. Chris Cocks. 1999. ISBN-0-620-24115-2 Operation Zambezi: The Raid into Zambia. Peter Armstrong. 1979 One Commando: Rhodesia’s last years: The Guerrilla War. Dick Gledhill. 2001. ISBN-1-919874-35-6 Rhodesia. Robin Moore. 1977. ISBN-0-89516-005-6 The Silent War: The Fight for Southern Africa. Reg Shay, Chris Vermaak. 1971 The Rain Goddess. Peter Stiff. 2003. ISBN-1-919854-06-1 Acabou: It’s Finished. Tim Green. 2001. ISBN-1-919-87408-9 Cyclone Blues. Chris Cocks. 2000. ISBN-0-620-25438-6 See You In November: The Story of an SAS Assassin. Peter Stiff. 2002. ISBN-1-919854-05-3 Faces of War. Peter Badcock. 1980. ISBN-0-86925-081-7 Shadows of War. Peter Badcock. 1978. Signed by the author. Copy number 80. ISBN-0-86925-080-9 Farmer at War. Trevor Grundy, Bernard Miller. 1979 A Pride of Eagles: The Definitive History of the Rhodesian Air Force 1920-1980. Beryl Salt. 2001. ISBN-0-620-23759-7 SOUTH AFRICA: More Than Game: A Salute to the South African Air Force. Herman Potgieter. 1995. ISBN-0-620-19213-5 3 Africa’s Super Power. Paul L Moorcraft. 1981. ISBN-086876009-0 Aircraft of the South African Air Force. Herman Potgieter, Willem Steenkamp. 1984. ISBN-0-86977-133-7 Border Strike! South Africa into Angola 1975-1980. Willem Steenkamp. 2006. ISBN-1-920169-008 Chopper Pilot. Monster Wilkins. 2000 African Military Aviation. Winston A. Brent. 1994. ISBN-0-958388-1-6 Ships of the South African Navy. A.K. Du Toit. 1976. How South Africa Built Six Atom Bombs. AL J. Venter. 2008. ISBN-978-0-9814098-4-9 We Fear Naught But God: The story of the South African Special Forces. Paul Els. ISBN-0-620-23891-7 Ongulumbashe: Where the Bushwar Began. Paul J Els. 2007. ISBN-9781920084813 The Military in the making of Modern South Africa. Annette Seegers. 1996. ISBN-1-85043-689-4 War Dog: Fighting Other Peoples’ Wars. AL J Venter. 2003. ISBN-1-932033-09-2 Pretoria’s Praetorians. Philip H Frankel. 1984. ISBN-0-521-26440-5 An Unpopular War: From afkak to bosbefok. J H Thompson. 2006. ISBN-1-77007-301-9 Vorster’s Africa: Friendship and Frustration. AL J Venter. 1977. ISBN-0-949997-15-3 Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Peter Stiff. 2001. ISBN-1-919854-01-0 The Covert War: Koevoet Operations Namibia 1979-1989. Peter Stiff. 2004. ISBN-1-919854-02-9 On South Africa’s Secret Service: An Undercover Agent’s Story. Riaan Labuschagne. 2002. ISBN-1-919854-08-8 Ops Medic: A National Serviceman’s Border War. Steven Webb. 2008. ISBN-978-1-919854-29-8 The Terror Fighters: A Profile of Guerrilla Warfare in Southern Africa. AL J Venter. 1969. On The Border 1965-1990: The White South African Military Experience. David Williams. 2008. ISBN-978-0-624-04469-7 Challenge: Southern Africa within the African Revolutionary context. AL J Venter. 1989. ISBN-0-620-12190-4 Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa. Fred Bridgland. 1986. ISBN-0-86954-284-2 Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, Pretoria. Piero Gleijeses. 2003. ISBN-1-919854-10-X 4 From Fledgling to Eagle: The South African Air Force during the Border War. Brig-Gen Dick Lord. 2008. ISBN-978-1-920143-30-5 The Silent War: South African Recce Operations 1969-1994. Peter Stiff. 2004. ISBN1-919854-04-5 Continent Ablaze: The Insurgency Wars in Africa 1960 to the Present. John W. Turner. 1998. ISBN-1-86842-046-9 BloodSong! : First Accounts of a Modern Private Army in Action-Angola 1993-1995. Jim Hooper. 2002. ISBN-0-00-711915-1 Days of the Generals: The untold story of South Africa’s apartheid-era military generals. Hilton Hamann. 2001. ISBN-1-86872-340-2 The Buffalo Soldiers: The story of South Africa’s 32-Battalion 1975-1993. Col. Jan Breytenbach. 2002. ISBN-1-919854-07-X Umkhonto we Sizwe: Fighting for a divided people. Thula Bopela, Daluxolo Luthuli. 2005. ISBN-1-919854-16-9 A Greater Share of Honour. Jack Greeff. 2001. ISBN-0-620-27999-0 Colonels & Cadres: War & Gender in South Africa. Jacklyn Cock. 1991. ISBN-0-19-570706-0 Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds. Eeben Barlow. 2007. ISBN-978-1-919854-19-9 Buffalo Battalion: South Africa’s 32 Battalion-A tale of sacrifice. L. J. Bothma. 2008. ISBN-978-0-620-41523-1 Terroris: ‘n Ooggetuie-verslag. AL J Venter. 1971. 32 Battalion: The inside story of South Africa’s Elite Fighting Unit. Piet Nortje. 2003. ISBN-1-86872-914-1 War in Angola: The final South African Phase. Helmoed-Romer Heitman.1990. ISBN-0-620-14370-3 BorderStrike! : South Africa into Angola. Willem Steenkamp. 1983. ISBN-0-409-10062-5 How Long Will South Africa Survive? R. W. Johnson. 1982. ISBN-0-333-22095-1 A Secret Burden: Memories of the Border War by South African soldiers who fought in it. Karen Batley. 2007. ISBN-978-1-86842-290-6 The Plunderers. Jan Breytenbach. 2001. ISBN-1-919874-01-1 Parabat: Personal accounts of paratroopers in combat situations in South Africa’s history. Mathew Paul. 2001. ISBN-1-919874-11-9 5 Vlamgat: The story of the Mirage F1 in the South African Air Force. Brig-Gen. Dick Lord. 2008. ISBN-978-1-920143-36-7 The Border. A. J. Brooks. 2007. ISBN-978-1-920143-10-7 Terrorism: The first full account in detail of terrorism and insurgency in Southern Africa. Michael Morris. 1971. My life with the SA Defence Force. Magnus Malan. 2006. ISBN-1-86919-114-5 South African Arms & Armour: A concise guide to armaments of the South African Army, Navy and Air Force. Helmoed-Romer Heitman. 1988. ISBN-0-86977-637-1 Total Onslaught: Apartheid’s dirty tricks exposed. De Wet Potgieter. 2007. ISBN-978-1-77007-328-9 Shadows in the Sand: A Koevoet tracker’s story of an insurgency war. Sisingi Kamongo. 2011. ISBN-978-0-620474-79-5 Bush War: The road to Cuito Cuanavale: Soviet soldiers’ accounts of the Angolan war. Gennady Shubin, Andrei Tokarev. 2011. ISBN-1-4314-0185-7 They live by the sword: 32 Buffalo Battalion-South African Foreign Legion. Col. Jan Breytenbach. 1990. ISBN-0-620-14870-5 19 with a Bullet: A South African paratrooper in Angola. Granger Korff. 2009. ISBN-978-1-920143-31-2 Troepie: From call-up to camps. Cameron Blake. 2009. ISBN-978-1-77022-051-5 The Wynand du Toit story. Allan Soule, Gary Dixon, Rene Richards. 1987. ISBN-0-947025-22-7 Buried in the sky. Rick Andrew. 2001. ISBN-0-141-00304-9 South African Special Forces. Robert Pitta, Jeff Fannel, Simon McCouaig. 1993. ISBN-1-85532-295-1 The Zulu War. Angus McBride. 1976. ISBN-978-0-85045-256-3 Modern African Wars (3): South-West Africa. Helmoed-Romer Heitman. 2005. ISBN-1-85532-122-X Modern African Wars 2: Angola and Mozambique 1961-74. Peter Abbot, Manuel Rodrigues. 1995. ISBN-0-85045-843-9 Government by Deception: Psychopolitics in Southern Africa. Jan Lamprecht. 2002. ISBN-0-9632947-3-3 Urgent Imperial Service: South African Forces in German South West Africa 1914-1915. Gerald L’Ange. 1991. ISBN-1-874800-22-7 6 They fought for King and Keiser: South Africans in German East Africa 1916. James Ambrose Brown. 1991. ISBN-1-874800-32-4 Warriors of the sky: Springboks air heroes in combat. Peter Bagshawe. 1990. ISBN-1-874800-11-1 The war of a hundred days: Springboks in Somalia and Abyssinia 1940-41. James Ambrose Brown. 1990. ISBN-1-874800-10-3 Aircraft Catalogue: A catalogue of the aircraft and aircraft engines on display at the South African National Museum of Military History. Capt J H A Speir, S Monick. 1994. 50 Years: South Africa in World War II. Joel Mervis. Waterkloof 50. Capt. Dave Becker. Soldiers of Fortune: The twentieth Century Mercenary. Peter Macdonald. 1986. ISBN-1-8517-1036-1 South Africa in two world wars: A newspaper history. Vic Alhadeff. 1979. ISBN-0-909238-43-X Like the Wind: The story of the South African Army. Siegfried Stander. 1985. ISBN-0-7971-0019-9 The South African Air Force: The Poster Book. Herman Potgieter. 1987. ISBN-0-86977-371-0 The South Africa Air Force at War. Martin Louw, Stefaan Bouwer. 1995. ISBN-0-86846-084-2 The Eagles of Zwartkop: South African first military air base. Dave Becker. 1996. ISBN-0-9583880-3-2 Our South African Army Today. Bernard Marks. 1977. ISBN-0-86843-014-5 South African Armed Forces. Helmoed-Romer Heitman. 1990. ISBN-0-620-14878-0 Through Desert Veld & Mud: The History of 15 Maintenance Unit 1899-1999. H R Paterson, M Levin. 2002. ISBN-0-620-29053-6 Taming the Landmine. Peter Stiff. 1986. ISBN-0-947020-04-7

I was at Bridge 14 and remember when we first came in contact with the cubans out on the Ebo road. I had just arrived and the casualties were rolling in at Cela hospital. We assisted the Dr's all day and that night late a Dr drew me a little map and said I had to go to the front lines and find Zulu group. I had to turn left at a green tractor but being colour blind in red, green, brown etc made it a lucky packet draw as there were a few abandoned tractors along the way. I was an Ops Medic and have a few photos the Dr's smuggled out. Kind Regards Kevin Bowden kevinb@internode.on.net

There are a few on ebay (under SADF) and also on Bid or Buy. With the Australian Dollar the Bid or Buy option is a steal.. Best of luck MARK

Hi fella's… I'm not sure if anyone can help but I'm looking to acquire a non-working A53 field radio chassis with the front panel intact (with knobs etc, Flexi antenna and bag (I have a handset). The other alternative I have is to scratch build one so if acquiring a real one is impossible, is there a former signaller out there who can let me have the dimensions of the radio as well as some good quality photo's of the unit - shot straight from each side? Naturally, if anyone has any spares like the antenna, the knobs and bag, this would also be of great help for the scratch build... My contact details are: mark@markraats.com Many thanks and best MARK

Hi Johan, Can you put me in touch with someone who can get me a beret badge infantry bokop and infantry balkie please, as I am in Australia I just cannot seem to find them, and I need them for my Anzac day march with SAMVOA. Many thanks, David Sheldon

Peter Hall. He got a degree and did well in spite of his injuries.