Operation Askari a Combat Mission Deep Into Angola

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One of the many cross border raids that would take place during the Angolan bush war.

[@garywilson1761]

I am fetching Donald

[@craigbritz1684]

And then Nelson Mandela became prime minister and one of the first things he did was he went to Cuba to shake hands with his mate Fidel Castro. This must have been an insult to all of us who fought in the border/angolan war

[@johngoosen1962]

Compliment was the comanding cuban general being executed tragic as it is.

[@gideonpeter6129]

Good very good for Cde Nelson Mandela to shake the hands of the Cubans comrades. Did you wanted him to shake hands with the Askaris and AWB?

[@WilliamEngelbrecht-p7x]

​@@gideonpeter6129 shut up

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

It is easy to find videos here, of how people was treated for decades in SA... As there hasn't been one single trial of compensation and reconciliation against perpetrators of apartheid. How to conduct yourself, if you are on the other side of the table? If you have been under the thumb of a oppressive minority, for whatever reason... now finally free and your choice is to side with their former enemy... how fitting

[@Angelo-g6l]

The music utter crap. Why, why, why do you play it. The music serves no purpose except to make people stop watching the full video

[@rossitherhodie5659]

I'm Rhodesian and was in Rhodie war 70's....Respect to you guys, we could have held on with your armourments, our joint forces and leadership, but politicians cooked the cat as usual and now both countries are &^%*^*, well just look for yourselves. Such a waste of human lives and hard work. Just think how different and Great our nations could have been. Yes we made some mistakes by not integrating ALL south African and Rhodesian races earlier and giving them the same opportunities, but it was all about standards and keeping out communism.

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Thanks Peter, did you see our latest video on the Rhodesian SAS

[@janvanheerden265]

The mudic is too loud

[@HistoricMilitaryInterviews]

Thanks for watching Jan, we have made a note of the music.

[@IansDrumsandBass]

Totally agree with you

[@Toncor12]

You produce wonderful, wonderful videos like this one but may I encourage you to make the music very soft or drop it altogether when a person is talking. It actually serves no point at all in my humble opinion when the storyteller is talking but being part of the instroduction etc is okay..

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Thanks for the feedback. Good point and we have noted it for future videos.

[@ianhinrichsendrummer2113]

Absolutely, when the music stopped it was so much better and then it started AGAIN!!

[@henrydekock4398]

Thank you all for your service 😊

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Thanks for watching.

[@deepdiver51]

I was in 1 SSB in 1970. Lt Byleveldt, Staff Carstens and Sgt Jakobs.

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Thanks for sharing.

[@IansDrumsandBass]

Honestly, that music was so disruptive to the talking, I turned the vdo off after 2 minutes.😱😱

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Thanks for the feedback Ian. It was one of the first videos we did. Something we need to redo.

[@IansDrumsandBass]

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[@leonmuller3411]

Guys, you just making the Heart of another fellow X-Soldier soft, damn man, i miss my 7.62 Caliber LMG Machine Gun, i miss everything of those years, though i'm now 53 yrs old, doesn't mean the heart is cold, but current events with all the lies & shit do make my hearts wanna turn cold

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[@antongruber5978]

Nothing like a slung LMG 63 , ready to let rip

[@christovanzyl1768]

Was in that convoy going up to Caindo driving a Samil 50 loaded to the brim with 90mm cannon shells

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Thanks for watching Christo, scary driving a vehicle full of ammunition in a war zone.

[@luckydubeinrc5165]

@@HistoricMilitaryInterviews 9F3 kwevool, 81 patmors , kos, mines, explosives :)

[@HennieVanNiekerk-t6k]

Win the fire fight, win the war, as the famous words of our trainer "killer Jakes"

[@wytbarnard5494]

Thank you so much for a very powerful film. Although I am an old Rhodesian soldier I found this a wonderful memory of a very difficult time. I truly hope you can do the same for the fine soldiers of my country. Thank you W Barnard

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Thanks Barbara for watching and your feedback.

[@ErrolI-ez5iq]

I am a very proud member of 1SSB. I was stationed in Walvis Bay in 1969 and all my camps were on the border. Oshikati Ondongwa, Nkurunkuku, Runda etc. Took part in operation Savanna. Best time of my life.

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Thanks for sharing your story.

[@craigbritz1684]

@@ErrolI-ez5iq If your army days were the best days of your life, you obviously havent had much of a life.

[@Rustie_za]

the music on this is very annoying and distracting

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Thanks Johann for the feedback.

[@deepdiver51]

Not a good idea to have music when the audio is so poor.

[@HistoricMilitaryInterviews]

Thanks for the feedback. We are working to remove the music and will repost each section without music once it is complete.

[@ericbivins8014]

Respect to you guys from a USMC vet.

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Thanks for watching.

[@mikebooyens3807]

Lest we forget. To my father WO1 MA "Piet" Booyens (PMM, MMM), RSM School of Armour ('67-69), RSM 2SSB ('69-'72) & RSM 1SSB ('72-'76). "Faithful True and Steady, Come what may we're ready"

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Thanks Mike for the information on your Dad

[@ca9968]

Seeing that picture from Christmas Day 1983 really resonated with me, I moved from the UK to SA at age 6 in February 1983, that Christmas Day my whole family and some family friends spent the day at the Holiday Inn at Jan Smuts airport...strange to think that we were all having a great day, eating until bursting and everyone smiling and happy while all of you brave souls were up there keeping the wolf away...thank you all from the bottom of my heart for affording me the best childhood a kid could ever imagine having.

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Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@grantoconnor6019]

The Angolan Oil fields were of more interests to the Americans than the SAM7 missiles. The war was well under way before any SAM7 missiles were deployed. They SAM7's were merely part of the war spoils at the end of the day. Good and sad memories. Thank you.

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Thanks Grant for watching and your input. You make a good point.

[@pedroleal7118]

And diamonds, and Uranium, and Titanium &,&,&...

[@edmundwessels2072]

Well today there's a direct flight from the US to Angola and a massive American township.

[@JonathanMacleod-s8k]

The music destroyed an otherwise good video

[@HistoricMilitaryInterviews]

Thanks for the feedback. This was one of our first videos and we did mess up the music.

[@HennieVanNiekerk-t6k]

All airsupport came from Ondangwa airfield

[@hintersland7262]

What the hell is the background music for??!!

[@HistoricMilitaryInterviews]

Thanks for the feedback. This was one of our first videos when we started podcasting a number of years ago. Quality was not up to scratch.

[@IansDrumsandBass]

So freakin irritating 😡😡😡

[@gerhardmichau4829]

Enjoyed the talk and interview was in the school of armour 1973 then went to 1SSB 1974 my civilian unit was the Pretoria Highlanders thanks again

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Thanks for watching.

[@charleshofman7637]

Hi was at school of armour and then 2ssb in 70's

[@janhenning4678]

The background music spoil the whole video

[@HistoricMilitaryInterviews]

Thanks Jan for the feedback. It was one of the first videos we did.

[@brandaoz]

Now they know what we went trough...

[@stuartgorton7746]

Proud member of 1SSB 1987 The best and still is .

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Thanks for sharing

[@eros69eros1]

Kaptein Du Plessis. I remember all so clearly. I was the OpsMedic Squadron. Du Mond was captain's drive and Richy his gunner! Best memories! Ops Askari 83/84. Thsnx for this!

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Thanks for sharing Gerhard

[@wpforever5257]

I see Rufus Slabbert and Barries Barnard there

[@mikethomas1866]

Sergeant slabs.....what a character😂😂

[@pieterbeukes1411]

Saluut, Kav J Pretoruis,....... landmuin ondplofing op patrolie in Kahokoland ( langs die Kaminjap)

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Thanks for sharing the story.

[@IansDrumsandBass]

Capt Pretorius - 1 SAI BN?

[@gideonpeter6129]

Cowards 😂😂😂😂😂

[@robert-trading-as-Bob69]

1 SSB was part of the South African 6th Armoured DIVISION in Italy, not the 6th Armoured Regiment. The reason SA put up an armoured division was because there were not enough men to form an infantry division. The British and Americans tried to get SA to furnish infantry rather because of the death toll of infantrymen. Most of 6th Div. SA in Italy were volunteers who had fought in the East African Campaign and in North Africa as infantrymen.

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Thanks for sharing.

[@neilblunt1926]

My late father was in both East African and Libya as part of South African Irish (having an Irish mother or grandmother) regiment in the 6th Div. He was captured at Sidi Rezeg, taken to Italy as a POW and managed to escape across the Alps into Switzerland where he had to wait out the rest of the war. I always was proud of what he did as I am proud of and salute all my fellow soldiers who fought in Angola and SWA. As for me my little part was totally insignificant as part of 3 SAI at Rundu from mid Jan.69 to mid April 69 long before the real war started. Doing mostly showing our faces that the Army was there, training in the bush and the odd patrol. The only scariest of all was night patrolling in Rundu itself. Oh and escorting a Portugese Officer deep into the Caprivi Strip for him to be taken over the river. Again a salute to all of you that actually fought.

[@robert-trading-as-Bob69]

@@neilblunt1926 I volunteered to join the Transvaal Scottish after my camps were finished, went from Armoured Corps to infantry. The 3rd Battalion Transvaal Scottish were almost wiped out at Sidi Rezeg, most of the troops captured by the Germans. That's what happens when tanks face unsupported infantry. Some of the SA men held by the Italians escaped when Italy surrendered to the Allies despite being told to stay in their POW camps by their own officers... and joined up with Italian partizans fighting the Germans.

[@neilblunt1926]

My late father was an infantryman, he often said a PBI (poor bloody infantry), as I became in Sep.1968 onwards. He was a member of SA Irish regiment and fought in East Africa and later in Libyan desert. He was captured at the battle of Sidi Rezeg, shipped to Italy as a POW, nearly drowned when the ship he was on was sunk at it came into Italy. He later escaped from his POW camp over the Alps into Switzerland. My hero, but badly affected by that time.

[@robert-trading-as-Bob69]

@@neilblunt1926 I knew a soldier by the name of 'Chippie' Brenner who was with the 3rd Battalion Transvaal Scottish and was captured at Sidi Rezegh as well. I got to meet him again when I joined the 2nd Battalion Transvaal Scottish when we honoured the men of the 3rd Battalion. My first meeting was at Bells Clothing, which he and his wife owned and ran in the 1980's. I was buying military surplus there as a teenager, and he asked me what I knew if the South Africans in North Africa during WWII. I impressed him by mentioning Sidi Rezegh. He thought youngsters wouldn't know about something so long ago that was important to him. Their memories live on in us, who remember them.

[@easyganer]

Thanx for doing this vid and you wold at the end is very nice and hart worming thanx and for let the ppl tal there said to the Bush war thanx you

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Thanks for watching and the feedback.

[@eros69eros1]

40 years ago this time askari 83/84

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Thanks Gerhard for your feedback.

[@hendriklamprecht3028]

I was there B escadron with major du toit ,61 meg ,wil never forget

[@softturd]

my brother fought with 32 i miss him incredibly

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Thanks for watching

[@craigbritz1684]

Why? Did he die?

[@softturd]

@@craigbritz1684 not with 32, after that he joined thr recces lost him to cancer in 2019...his name is on the 32 memorial site though..not the actual tree but a service with old comradesof 32 paid respects there so i think so.