19 With a Bullet (25 page)

Paras drive past a knocked-out FAPLA tank.

Mountains of FAPLA war matériel, captured during Operation
Protea
, is stacked behind the South African APCs.

Mechanized Fighting Group 20, back in South West Africa after three weeks in Angola on Operation
Protea
, the biggest South African military operation since the Second World War.

From an Afrikaans newspaper cutting: SADF troops inspecting a captured FAPLA anti-aircraft artillery piece.

Digging in for the night in Angola during Operation
Ceiling
.

A SWAPO turncoat being dropped off with the paras in Angola. The following day he led the paras to SWAPO’s ‘Navy HQ’, where the paras sprung a dawn ambush and killed all 17 SWAPO guerrillas in situ.

John Delaney and Granger Korff about to emplane at Ongiva after several weeks of continuous fighting around the airstrip (in the background).

Valk
4 flying in fast to a contact during Op
Daisy
, Angola, November 1981.

Kurt Barnes, John ‘The Fox’ and ‘Stan the Man’.

An H Company soldier shows off his shrapnel wounds.

Kitted up.

The author by his well-constructed bivvy of branches and stolen body bags. During Operation
Daisy,
D company was held in reserve but ended up fighting in the bloodiest contact.