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19 with a bullet : a South African paratrooper in Angola / Granger Korff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Korff, Granger, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--South Africa--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- South Africa--History, Military--1961-.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Armed Forces--Angola.
- South Africa--Armed Forces--Namibia.
- Angola--History--South African Incursions, 1978-1990--Personal narratives.
- Angola.
- South Africa. Army--Biography.
- Korff, Granger.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Other Title:
- Nineteen with a bullet
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg, South Africa : 30° South Publishers, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff's two years' service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African 'bush war' inSouth West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the 'standard' counter-insurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroySWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several massive South African Defence Force (SADF) conventional cross-border operations, such as Protea, Daisy and Carnation,into Angola to take on FAPLA (Angolan MPLA troops) and their Cuban and Soviet allies. Having grown up as an
- Contents:
- Understanding the Border War between Angola, SWAPO and South Africa; Howzit; Growing up in South Africa; SWAPO-the bush war on the Angolan/South West African border; Into the army; 1 Parachute Battalion; Jump course; 1 Reconnaissance Commando selection course; Now what?; Gatvol; Back to 1 Parachute Battalion; Ondangwa-1 Parachute Battalion's operational base on the border; Into Angola; Base nights; First blood; Contact; 32 Battalion; Free Nelson Mandela; Back into Angola-Operation Ceiling, June 1981; Dawn ambush-'Take no prisoners; kill them all'; Deadly clash with FAPLA; More contact
- Bush justiceHidden from view; Court martial; Operation Protea-August 1981; Trenches and bunkers; 21 at last; The end of Operation Protea; Glorious 21-day pass; Operation Daisy-October/November 1981; Enough is enough; Epilogue-March 2008
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781928359081
- 1928359086
- 9781908916105
- 1908916109
- OCLC:
- 797916184
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