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From the outset, the export of revolution and Communist ideology had been one of the cornerstones of Soviet Russia's (and later the Soviet Union's) foreign policy and by the mid-1950's the export of Soviet arms expanded into Africa with Algeria being amongst the first African countries to receive Soviet combat aircraft. By the 1960's and 1970's, a large number of African states had gained independence and the Soviet Union increased supply. This situation persisted until the early 1990's when most of the former Soviet allies shed socialism and switched allegiance to the West. Having often been flown by foreign volunteer or mercenary pilots such as the Cubans in Angola and South Africans in Sierra Leone, Soviet/Russian military aircraft can now be seen in countries as varied as Algeria, Libya, the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, and Sudan. Combat types from the MiG-15 to the latest Su-30MK fighters, Su-24MK tactical bombers, Su-25 attack aircraft, Mi-24/25/35 helicopters and transports from the Antonov An-12 to the Il yushin Il-76 can all be seen across Africa. Arranged by country and using previously classified sources, Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft in Africa includes comprehensive fleet lists of all known Soviet/Russian military aircraft together with their Chinese derivatives. Highly illustrated with contemporary photographs, air force insignia and colour profiles this book forms an invaluable reference for modellers, enthusiasts and aviation historians alike.  HARDCOVER, 272 pages with over 300 photographs and 100 colour profiles.  Published April 2013 The title is imported on demand and a waiting period might apply.

 British and Foreign Ribbons, Naval, Military, Air Force  and Civil, By Captain H. Tarrell Dorling, A 5 small soft cover, illustrated, some wear.

As Per Scans.1939-45 AIR CREW EUROPE STAR MEDAL RIBBON - Original LENGTH : +/- 15cm PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ! 

As Per Scans. WORLD WAR II ITALIAN AIR FORCE CAP BADGE SCREWS INTACT  SIZE: +/- 5 cm x +/- 3 cm PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES !  SHIPPING WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA ONLY !  SOLD AS IS      

As Per Photos.SAAF SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE LOT INCL CAP BADGES, COLLARS, SHOULDER TITLES ALL LUGS AND PINS INTACT EXCEPT THE BOTTOM RIGHT SHOULDER TITLE WHICH HAS ONE LUG MISSING PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES !  SHIPPING WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA ONLY !  SOLD AS IS      

As Per Scans.THE ELITE:THE STORY OF THE RHODESIAN SPECIAL AIR SERVICE HARDCOVER By BARBARA COLE. Dust jacket as per scans.Toning around the edges of the pages.No Tears of the pages.One word & date written in pen one page in the beginning. PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES !  SHIPPING WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA ONLY !  SOLD AS IS

As Per Photos.WORLD WAR 2 SAAF SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE SINGLE SHOULDER TITLE PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ! SHIPPING WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA ONLY !  SOLD AS IS                    

As Per Photos.SAAF SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE LOT INCL CAP BADGES, COLLARS, SHOULDER TITLES ALL LUGS AND PINS INTACT PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES !  SHIPPING WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA ONLY !  SOLD AS IS          

Condition As Per Photos.SAAF SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE CAST METAL SWEETHEARTS BROOCH PIN BACK INTACT  PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES !  SHIPPING WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA ONLY !  SOLD AS IS  

Condition As Per Photos.WORLD WAR 2 RAF ROYAL AIR FORCE CAP BADGE ONE LUG INTACT - ONE MISSING PLEASE NO FOREIGN BIDDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES !  SHIPPING WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA ONLY !  SOLD AS IS    

At last! The history of the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Weve seen the stories of the more glamorous Selous Scouts, the SAS and the Rhodesian Air Force, but very little about the RLI, often underrated, but arguably one of the most effective counter-insurgency units of all time. This was the unit that brought the Fireforce concept to the worlds attention - the devastatingly ruthless airborne envelopment and annihilation of a guerrilla enemy. Dubbed The Killing Machine by Charles D. Melson, chief historian of the US Marine Corps, the RLI was a veritable foreign legion with over 20 diverse nationalities serving in her ranks. The RLI, a truly international airborne battalion, comprising of over 20 nationalities, fought the bitter Zimbabwean bush war for 15 years against the overwhelming tide of communist-trained guerrillas. Kill rates dont win wars, but during its brief 19-year history, it is estimated that the RLI accounted for between 12,000 and 15,000 enemy guerrillas, for the loss of 135 men. RLI soldiers were recipients of four Silver Crosses and 42 Bronze Crosses of Rhodesia. An RLI trooper holds the world record for operational parachute descents - a staggering 73 op jumps - most under 500 feet! A glossy coffee-table, pictorial format with hundreds of colour photos, maps, rolls, honours and awards. It is not intended as a definitive history but, with more of a classic scrapbook feel, the presentation attempts to capture the essence of this fine unit - what it was like to be a troopie, one of the ouens. We have accessed a host of unique, previously unpublished photos and illustrative material and many former RLI members have embraced the project, generously contributing photos, memorabilia and anecdotes. Ian Smith has written his tribute in the front and the foreword is by the last CO, Lieutenant-Colonel Charlie Aust. PAPERBACK: 544 PAGES WITH  1,800 b/w illustrations & maps.  Published June 2007

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy. The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, fully stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out a massive resistance group, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to claim full sovereignty over the country. A giant FAPLA offensive so threatened to succeed in overcoming UNITA that apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolan government to call on their own foreign reinforcementsthe army of Communist Cubas. Thus began the epic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, largely unknown in the U.S., but which raged for three months in the entirely odd match-up of South African Boers vs. Castros armed forces, which for the first time in the Cold War proved what it could achieve. And it turned out the Cubans were very good. The South Africans were no slouches at warfare themselves, but had suffered under a boycott of weapons since 1977. The Cubans and Angolan troops, instead, had the latest Soviet weapons, easily delivered. But UNITA had its secret U.S. supply line and the South Africans knew how to fight, mainly at a disadvantage in air power for lack of spare parts. Meantime the Cubans overcame their logistic difficulties with an impressive airlift of troops over the Atlantic, while the Boers simply needed to drive next door. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and Westalbeit proxies for the great powers on all sidesthis book unveils a remarkable episode of the end-game of the Cold War largely unknown to the public. The Angolans on both sides suffered heavily, but it was the apartheid South Africans versus Castros armed forces that provides utter fascination in one of historys rare match-ups. Paperback / 232 pages 54 b/w photos Published December 2013  

Here we have on auction a difficult to source and scarce JOBLOT of 3 x items - all 3 services of the Mozambique Armed Forces (FADM) rank boards (insignia). in the photo above, left to right is the Army, Air Force and (right) Navy. Please see the pics for further detail and as a confirmation of the item and its condition as on auction. Please note that the camo used as a background is not included in this auction. Postage quotes supplied at close of successful auction depending on the winning bidder and his/ her location! Paypal gladly accepted for foreign or overseas buyers! Happy bidding!!!

 SOUTH AFRICA IN WORLD WAR 11 ; A Pictorial History; Editor; JOHN KEENE;       Hardcover; Human & Rousseau ; 1995;    ISBN 0 7981 3388 0 ; No. of Pages; 208  For more information on John Keene see; http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol153jk.html Note Chapter on The South African Naval Forces at War  and also; South Africans on Foreign service including South Africans in the Royal Air Force. Condition; very good NOTE a tear of 2.5 cm on the dust jacket top back on the spine, no inscriptions, very clean, no browning of the paper. For posatge via SA Post Office and within SA  please add R60.00  alternatively via POSTNET to Postnet for a parcel of up to 5kg (addit. books maybe included) then please add R105.00.Buyers from outside of SA can contact me for a postal quote.    

Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guin-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the modern era. Commonly referred to as Lisbon's Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies, the War of Liberation (Guerra de Liberta£o), these struggles played a seminal role in ending white rule in Southern Africa. Though hardly on the scale of hostilities being fought in South East Asia, the casualty count by the time a military coup d'tat took place in Lisbon in April 1974 was significant. It was certainly enough to cause Portugal to call a halt to violence and pull all its troops back to the Metropolis. Ultimately, Lisbon was to move out of Africa altogether, when hundreds of thousands of Portuguese nationals returned to Europe, the majority having left everything they owned behind. Independence for all the former colonies, including the Atlantic islands, followed soon afterwards. Lisbon ruled its African territories for more than five centuries, not always undisputed by its black and mestizo subjects, but effectively enough to create a lasting Lusitanian tradition. That imprint is indelible and remains engraved in language, social mores and cultural traditions that sometimes have more in common with Europe than with Africa. Today, most of the newspapers in Luanda, Maputo - formerly Lourenco Marques - and Bissau are in Portuguese, as is the language taught in their schools and used by their respective representatives in international bodies to which they all subscribe. Indeed, on a recent visit to Central Mozambique in 2013, a youthful member of the American Peace Corps told this author that despite having been embroiled in conflict with the Portuguese for many years in the 1960s and 1970s, he found the local people with whom he came into contact inordinately fond of their erstwhile 'colonial overlords'. As a foreign correspondent, Al Venter covered all three wars over more than a decade, spending lengthy periods in the territories while going on operations with the Portuguese army, marines and air force. In the process he wrote several books on these conflicts, including a report on the conflict in Portuguese Guinea for the Munger Africana Library of the California Institute of Technology. Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa  represents an amalgam of these efforts. At the same time, this book is not an official history, but rather a journalist's perspective of military events as viewed by somebody who has made a career of reporting on overseas wars, Africa's especially. Venter's camera was always at hand; most of the images used between these covers are his. His approach is both intrusive and personal and he would like to believe that he has managed to record for posterity a tiny but vital segment of African history. HARDBACK, 544 PAGES WITH PHOTOS & MAPS Published December 2013

 SOUTH AFRICA IN WORLD WAR 11 ; A Pictorial History; Editor; JOHN KEENE;      Hardcover; Human & Rousseau ; 1995;    ISBN 0 7981 3388 0 ; No. of Pages; 208  For more information on John Keene see; http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol153jk.html Note Chapter on The South African Naval Forces at War  and also; South Africans on Foreign service including South Africans in the Royal Air Force. Condition; very good; no tears , no inscriptions, very clean, ; NB Note; Some browning on the paper of the title page only . For postage via SA Post Office and within SA   Preferably  via POSTNET to Postnet for a parcel of up to 5kg (addit. books maybe included) then please add R100.00. Alternatively via SAPO  (with a tracking no.) then please add R60.00. (please add under Option 1) Also available is PAXI  which is Pep Stores to your closest Pep Stores ; ADD R55.00 delivery around 9 days. Add under Option 1 and use Notes to state via Pep Stores .   Buyers from outside of SA can contact me for a postal quote.    

 1988 SADF National Service Info. Booklet w/  Insert Card (English). This item is in GOOD CONDITION,  there are a few marks on the front cover and some signs of wear. However, binding is PERFECT & ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT. PRINT IS LEGIBLE & ALL ILLUSTRATIONS ARE CLEAR.  THIS INFO. BOOKLET WAS SUPPLIED TO ALL PROSPECTIVE NATIONAL SERVICEMEN,  PRIOR TO REPORTING - IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN THEIR PREFERRED BRANCH OF SERVICE (ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR SAMS). - INCLUDED IS A INSERT CARD REQUIRING THE RETURN OF THE ALLOCATION QUESTIONNAIRE ON 24 JUNE 1988. ON THIS CARD, THE SERVICE NO:  86229598 HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY THE UNKNOWN CONSCRIPT.   AN IDEAL COLLECTOR'S ITEM FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN PRE-1994 SADF MILITARIA & SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY HISTORY.    FOREIGN BIDDERS TO PAY USING BOB BUCKS - QUOTED SHIPPING  NO COLLECTIONS  PAYMENT IN 7 DAYS OR SNC  SEE SHIPPING