I was ten years old then. I proudly remember the justice delivered swiftly from above by our blue jobs and on the ground by our brown jobs. I remember the deafening silence which prompted retribution. My eternal thanks to our brave who gave their all to keep us safe Health wealth peace and prosperity always be upon each and every one of you who contributed to our beautiful country and magnificent people
PATU, Light Infantry, Scouts and C Squadron. Bless you Dad and Uncle Neil. You were real men. I still have your stable belts and dress ties. What a time it must have been.......
I love watching this. I do it often, it inspires me. The only problem I have is that it was'nt targeted on Mugitbe. The bravery shown by the Rhodesian armed forces still leaves me gobsmacked. If only current operations against terrorists were allowed. Mugabe is a murdering teroorist. Fact. RIP all Rhodesian forces who tried to secure a future for the inhabitants for the bread basket of Africe. Shame Mugitbe chose to syphon off the money instead of looking after the people. I pray for the people of Zimbabwe, they have been screwed. PS thanks for Kyle Jarvis xx
I visited Zimbabwe in 1987 before sailing on one stage of the First Fleet Reenactment Voyage from Cape Town to Port Louis. The voyage was the 200th anniversary of colonization of New South Wales (NSW) by Capt Arthur Phillip RN and 12 ships of convicts from Britain in 1788. I went to Harare and Victoria Falls staying at Victoria Falls Hotel after flying from South Africa on an compact old Boeing 727. We walked to the Zambia border from the hotel on day crossing via the railway bridge and got a taxi to Stanleyville (I think that was the towns name) about 10 km from the border to have lunch.before seeing that side of Victoria Fall. At Customs people from our British Commonwealth paid no entry fee but the American with us had to pay. The US colonies left the British Empire in 1776. I flew on Air Zimbabwe and South African Airlines between Cape Town Airport, Harare and the Falls in Zimbabwe. The Aerodrome at Victoria Falls was just an airstrip and no terminal but the Falls bus was there to transport us the beautiful colonial era hotel.
For those of you that are ignorant of subject matter. Zambia was formerly Northern Rhodesia. These are our brothers and sisters. Green Leader is targeting the terrorists camps in the bush, not the Zambians.
@MrZingy I can see where you are coming from (in a way) but I work with a black Zimbabwean who is old enough to remember the Bush War. He and his family worked for a white landowner who they all thought the world of. he told me he'd give anything to see Zimbabwe returned to being part of the British Empire again. That'll never happen of course but he genuinely believes that Mugabe & his gov't have utterly wrecked a great country.
@dakalo mboyi he literally ordered the shootdown of 2 civilian airliners and then had all aboard executed . Nkomo also commanded a terrorist organization that murdered children in their homes, killed their families. Nkomo is no hero. Nobody can be a hero if you kill children with no remorse.
''An unexpected consequence of "Gatling" was that ZIPRA got extremely trigger-happy, and by the beginning of Nov. 1978 Rhodesian Intelligence reported that ZIPRA managed to accidentally shoot down two Zambian plane and fire at civilian aircraft in Zambia (missing them). The Source, if anyone needs it, is Rhodesian Army Association Archive, File 2001/086/033 or 2001/086/347, Zambia Intusm 30Oct-5Nov 1978.
it was no accident. Their excuse was that it was in use by the military. Something that immedietly proves that wrong is that they executed all civilians that survived save for a few that managed to run away. not just executed, they were beheaded.
@@agoodchristianpilot159 You are misunderstanding Jennifer Upton. She is not referring to the Viscount shootdowns - she is talking of ZIPRA shooting down Zambian planes.
I arrived in Zambia, Sept 1980, and remember being told by a Zambia University history graduate how a guerrilla training camp passing out parade had been slaughtered by a Rhodesian air raid. Also saw Nkomo's house in Lusaka that had been totally trashed by Rhodesian special forces, who had not found him at home at the time.
@@AnnE-mn8ny In 2011 the BBC Radio 4 programme Documents featured testimony from Lord Owen that Flower had been an MI6 mole for Britain during his tenure as head of Rhodesian CIO and that his disclosure of Rhodesian plans had enabled Mugabe to survive assassination and become the first prime minister of Zimbabwe, following independence.
green leader, his speech to the lusaka tower is the most famous battle cry in modern warfare,god what a time it was for the tiny country of rhodesia, god bless ian smith,god bless the selous scouts.
40th anniversary of this raid tomorrow 19 Oct 2018. I wrote a letter to the editor to some Australian newspapers about this raid and the shooting down of the civil airliner earlier. It will be interesting to see if it is published.
@@AnnE-mn8ny- A bit overstated Ann. I love the ABC but newspapers are declining however the online trolls are far worse than any newspaper. This is why I don't have facebook, twitter etc.
Incredible piece of history....nail biting I would give my eye teeth to have participated in some of this shit....Mugabe and Zuma could have been prevented?
@@dakalodk Wrong. This was a retaliatory raid against ZIPRA for the downing of the first Viscount airliner and the subsequent massacre of 10 of the 18 who survived the crash. The next year another Viscount was shot down with no survivors
Yes loved that, I was only waiting for the chap in Lusaka Tower to say 'Thank you Boss' which would have rounded up a good day for the forces of good in Africa!
Thank you from South Africa! Any work done to help Africa I admire greatly. Gods greatest creation, Africa, and we're destroying it with pointless civil wars. Imagine an Africa in better union.
Sub Saharan Africa is crawling with endemic, chronic, virulent disease, even if one does not include Ebola, and HIV. For gosh sakes, what's so great about that?
@@2349RH Winston Churchill learnt to lead in South Africa, as did Ghandi. Dr Verwoerd was the greatest Prime Minister the Union, and the Republic ever had. Wake up, open your nose, smell the Ricoffy.
"K1 stoppage" at 4:13 is Alouette Mk3 Callsign K4 reporting a stoppage on his guns to the squadron leader K1. K Cars used 20mm Hispano Souza cannon mounted in the side door. G Cars used twin .303 browning mg's. Can't tell whether K1,2,3,4 were all using 20mm or if some were G Cars assigned a "K" Callsign for the raid. At 6:56 u can hear K3 firing what sounds like twin .303's & K4 reports he still has a stoppage. The 20mm sounded like 'poom-poom-poom' when heard from the ground- very accurate!
They worked against Rhodesia as they wanted the country to become Zimbabwe. Then in the 1980s the British military had army guys there training them - despite it being a quasi--communist country, and all of this at the height of the Cold War!
excellent video and audio. Just shows that the Rhodesian Airforce had total air supremecy as the did not bother to maintain any radio silence during the raid
Pilot of civil aircraft told to wait in holding pattern by ATC, Zambia 'Who's in charge down there??' ATC Zambia 'At the moment, the Rhodesians are, over!'
Hello there. No, no. I was in the Rhodesian Security Forces but I was ground forces. This was possibly the best known of the external raids on terrorist bases, I'm just proud I was part of the whole picture.
@MrZingy Changing the subject, could you suggest a suitable chemical to put on molehills in order to persuade them to bugger off? The littl sods are all over, or rather, UNDER my back garden!!!
what a great day best thing on youtube god bless those guys legends never forget what we the west did to rhodesia and how well its woked out for eveyone
I found an index from a military weapons manual. The index contained different weapons. Under each weapon was this standard sub-entry: "misfire, hangfire, and stoppage," APK
@vaun101 Agreed - the SLR is quite a heavy rifle, especially when compared to M16 / M4 derivatives. That said, the FN FAL (SLR) packs a heavier punch so its horses for courses really. I think the FN is a great old boomer & far superior to the SA80 family.
It's a damn shame what had happened in the country under Mugabe. Pity the poor civlians there. What a waste of the "Breadbasket of Africa" under his misguided handling of the country .....it's a damn crying shame!
@MrZingy 9 GCSE's, 3 A-levels & and a HND in Aeronautical Engineering to be precise old bean! By the way, consider this. Many of the individuls that you are attacking on this post lost everything they had after the Bush War. Some of them will be ex servicemen who were fighting to protect their homes, livelihoods, families etc. Forget the politics, they were ordinary blokes but exceptional soldiers. I don't know who you are or what you do, but in those circumstances, what would you have done?
yes consider Northern Rhodesia.. 1930 to 1963.. Britain built a country worlds 4th largest copper producer, hydro-eclectic dams, electrical infrastructure, irrigation, roads, railways, airports, cities, civil governance, armed forces, police, farms, ranches, schools, hospitals, money, cars, trucks, houses, radio-TV, modern medicines and pain killers.. the list is endless. accomplished with just 30,000 to 75,000 Europeans in just 33 years.. African population increased from 1.3 to 3.5 millions
Hi, not sure that was the actual name of the op, but i suspect it was. Joint op. with the recces and Rhodesian SAS in Maputo, 1978. They attempted to assasinate Mugabe, but apparently he had been tipped off and left town. (see Killing Zone, by Harry Mccallion)
@MrZingy the only despotic maniac in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia was/is Mugabe - Nkomo and ZANU-PF. FWIW bud, losing causes are the best ones to fight...something I doubt very much you have much experience with. BTW, I was a Canadian who volunteered to serve as a Reg Force soldier in the Rhodie Army...it was the Rhodies who adopted me while I served in their army. "Pity and empty"...hardly - best time of my life spent serving and fighting with the Rhodesians - too bad you didn't.
Read Barbara Coles "The Elite - the story of the Rhodesian SAS'. Pearse was KIA attacking ZIPRA HQ's in Zambia when the bunker bomb he placed in the wall of the building caused the wall to collapse on top of him. By the way, it's 'C' Sqn RhSAS.
My father-late brother & uncles thought in the Bush War in the. 60s/70s , against the Marxist guerilla/terrorists of Mugabe . A sad sad day for Rhodessia betrayed by UK/U.S & the UN ....... R.I.P : L Cpl Bruce.J.Cocks - D Sqn RhACR aka "Black Devils" / Born : March 3 , 1958 - Died : Feburary 26 , 1979 :(
I'd love to have seen the face on the poor Zambian Air traffic Controller after recieving that statement. "Oh I'm sorry can you repeat?" He was probably thinking about getting a spot to eat or something when that TX came through! Hahaha!
@MrZingy Another thing Zingy, you appear educated - good man. Well done. However, education is only validated when that education is acted upon. Its all very well being loaded down with qualifications, yet its what one DOES with them that counts. I'm not putting you down - really, but I've served my country as best I can with what I have and many of these Rhodesian guys have done just the same. Only a soldier can truly understand what combat is like & why its sadly necessary sometimes.
Sorry kneeslider47 - I thought Zingy was the Brit NCO but I see it is you who were the one. I have removed my incendiary comments about both Jr & Sr NCO's...my barbs at Zingy notwithstanding.
stoppage was on either one of the helicopters with heavy machine guns or the cannon on one of the other jets taking part, shame that they did not mange to use all their ammo!
Absolutely amazing. Rhodesian armed forces (black and white) were an incredibly brave set of folks. My hat goes off to you guys.
2018 and I'm here. Born in Bulawayo 1978. This gives me goosebumps
Me too! 1980.
Hey mukka, how’s is living in Zimbabue nowadays? Being white
One day the occupied territory of Rhodesia will be green and white again.
Born there 1955
Dont ever attack a civilian aircraft if you truly value your life !! Rhodesians do not play !!
Rhodesians never die.
SIT NOMINE DIGNA
Lekker ek se
well they no more
I wish I’d known you Rhodesians. A special bunch of brave people.
Green Leader will always be our " Leader " and no one will ever
take his place.
Copy that
i was in Rodhesia 1974 \1976 working with Crish Dixen R.L.I fabricating arme cars and reparing than.
i was a welder .
Joao correct spelling of Rhodesia and other spelling mistakes here including spelling of Chris Dixon.
Yes wrong speling
yes so wat ???????
@@johnlapapanzi You need to be able to spell to get a real job. That is why..
Thank you for your service.
Hi Folks - And mother England let their own people down once again and look at Rhodesia now.
Hell, look at ENGLAND now. Sad state of affairs.
Labour Government let them down
@@Mills-jw9nc Just like labour always do .flooding the country with worthless shit .
@@Mills-jw9nc labour and tories combined destroyed England
Yes same fuckup with India, China, África ,ect.ect.
What a tremendous historical document. Thanks.
God bless you green leader
What a civil fucking conversation betwen two enemies.
Did you copy all that? Roger. Thanks. Cheers!
I was ten years old then. I proudly remember the justice delivered swiftly from above by our blue jobs and on the ground by our brown jobs.
I remember the deafening silence which prompted retribution.
My eternal thanks to our brave who gave their all to keep us safe
Health wealth peace and prosperity always be upon each and every one of you who contributed to our beautiful country and magnificent people
My father also.
PATU, Light Infantry, Scouts and C Squadron. Bless you Dad and Uncle Neil. You were real men. I still have your stable belts and dress ties. What a time it must have been.......
I love watching this. I do it often, it inspires me. The only problem I have is that it was'nt targeted on Mugitbe. The bravery shown by the Rhodesian armed forces still leaves me gobsmacked. If only current operations against terrorists were allowed. Mugabe is a murdering teroorist. Fact. RIP all Rhodesian forces who tried to secure a future for the inhabitants for the bread basket of Africe. Shame Mugitbe chose to syphon off the money instead of looking after the people. I pray for the people of Zimbabwe, they have been screwed. PS thanks for Kyle Jarvis xx
Squadron Leader Chris Dixon (Green Leader) died of cancer in Harare on 21 Oct 2011.
I'm giving this a like but it's not really what I mean. RIP a true hero
Stayed in Salisbury even after communist take over. Brave man.
*Salisbury* I do not care that I'm wrong I'll never call it Harare
I visited Zimbabwe in 1987 before sailing on one stage of the First Fleet Reenactment Voyage from Cape Town to Port Louis. The voyage was the 200th anniversary of colonization of New South Wales (NSW) by Capt Arthur Phillip RN and 12 ships of convicts from Britain in 1788. I went to Harare and Victoria Falls staying at Victoria Falls Hotel after flying from South Africa on an compact old Boeing 727. We walked to the Zambia border from the hotel on day crossing via the railway bridge and got a taxi to Stanleyville (I think that was the towns name) about 10 km from the border to have lunch.before seeing that side of Victoria Fall. At Customs people from our British Commonwealth paid no entry fee but the American with us had to pay. The US colonies left the British Empire in 1776. I flew on Air Zimbabwe and South African Airlines between Cape Town Airport, Harare and the Falls in Zimbabwe. The Aerodrome at Victoria Falls was just an airstrip and no terminal but the Falls bus was there to transport us the beautiful colonial era hotel.
Вечного неба братишка
For those of you that are ignorant of subject matter. Zambia was formerly Northern Rhodesia. These are our brothers and sisters. Green Leader is targeting the terrorists camps in the bush, not the Zambians.
Screw you....green leader were the terrorists
@MrZingy
I can see where you are coming from (in a way) but I work with a black Zimbabwean who is old enough to remember the Bush War. He and his family worked for a white landowner who they all thought the world of. he told me he'd give anything to see Zimbabwe returned to being part of the British Empire again. That'll never happen of course but he genuinely believes that Mugabe & his gov't have utterly wrecked a great country.
Pity Mugabe and Nkomo weren't under that. Would have loved to see them screaming like fairies
Amazing how white people hated Nkomo. Nkomo is a hero .
@dakalo mboyi he literally ordered the shootdown of 2 civilian airliners and then had all aboard executed
. Nkomo also commanded a terrorist organization that murdered children in their homes, killed their families. Nkomo is no hero. Nobody can be a hero if you kill children with no remorse.
The thieving and mass murdering mugabe went on to ruin a nation.
@@dakalodk so you think they loved him ndebeles are funny
so polite with zambian air field control
"thank you Cheers" almost seems un-real
Their radio discipline is very laxed
Casually says we are orbiting you
But we will not shoot you just enjoy the show
''An unexpected consequence of "Gatling" was that ZIPRA got extremely trigger-happy, and by the beginning of Nov. 1978 Rhodesian Intelligence reported that ZIPRA managed to accidentally shoot down two Zambian plane and fire at civilian aircraft in Zambia (missing them).
The Source, if anyone needs it, is Rhodesian Army Association Archive, File 2001/086/033 or 2001/086/347, Zambia Intusm 30Oct-5Nov 1978.
it was no accident. Their excuse was that it was in use by the military. Something that immedietly proves that wrong is that they executed all civilians that survived save for a few that managed to run away. not just executed, they were beheaded.
@@agoodchristianpilot159 You are misunderstanding Jennifer Upton. She is not referring to the Viscount shootdowns - she is talking of ZIPRA shooting down Zambian planes.
I arrived in Zambia, Sept 1980, and remember being told by a Zambia University history graduate how a guerrilla training camp passing out parade had been slaughtered by a Rhodesian air raid. Also saw Nkomo's house in Lusaka that had been totally trashed by Rhodesian special forces, who had not found him at home at the time.
@@AnnE-mn8ny In 2011 the BBC Radio 4 programme Documents featured testimony from Lord Owen that Flower had been an MI6 mole for Britain during his tenure as head of Rhodesian CIO and that his disclosure of Rhodesian plans had enabled Mugabe to survive assassination and become the first prime minister of Zimbabwe, following independence.
Great footage, props to the RAF for accomplishing what they did with so little!
RhAF 👍
This should be a movie
Hebewood is too busy making Zionist tripe like "American Sniper" for that.
Lorinda Britton American sniper was good. Chris Kyle was a great man. Fuck zionists.
Ian Smith and Chris Dixon are heroes. God Bless!
Babylon fall, timid Zambia never again should you allow intimidation from anyone Militarily why did you not bring them down CCCP
Back when africa was great again
raglanheuser like I always say sometimes....
green leader, his speech to the lusaka tower is the most famous battle cry in modern warfare,god what a time it was for the tiny country of rhodesia, god bless ian smith,god bless the selous scouts.
sweet revenge! Well done RhAF!
40th anniversary of this raid tomorrow 19 Oct 2018. I wrote a letter to the editor to some Australian newspapers about this raid and the shooting down of the civil airliner earlier. It will be interesting to see if it is published.
My letter on the raid was published in the Canberra Times newspaper today (22 Oct 18) which can be read online.
@@AnnE-mn8ny- A bit overstated Ann. I love the ABC but newspapers are declining however the online trolls are far worse than any newspaper. This is why I don't have facebook, twitter etc.
"Roger thanks, Cheers!" I love that.
fucken beautiful those bombs where beautiful
Incredible piece of history....nail biting
I would give my eye teeth to have participated in some of this shit....Mugabe and Zuma could have been prevented?
+Sandy Herman I agree
Sandy Herman in did participate
How in the love of Christ we ever gave that beautiful God fearing nation over to those hyenas I'll never understand
Harold Wilson...
Blame Jimmy Carter.
Was this the start of the retaliation for the ZAMLA shooting down the civilian airliner and attacking farms?
I believe so, yes.
**Zipra, actually. ZANLA (as it is were called) actually operated out of Mozambique.
The viscounts were shot after these incidents
@@dakalodk Wrong. This was a retaliatory raid against ZIPRA for the downing of the first Viscount airliner and the subsequent massacre of 10 of the 18 who survived the crash. The next year another Viscount was shot down with no survivors
Salute to Green and White and Green Leader. Slot em all!
Heheheh.... slot... sling your slayer to slay and slay
i love it that Zambian air traffic control ask for permission for an aircraft to take off :)))
Love the accent
Yes loved that, I was only waiting for the chap in Lusaka Tower to say 'Thank you Boss' which would have rounded up a good day for the forces of good in Africa!
Thank you from South Africa! Any work done to help Africa I admire greatly.
Gods greatest creation, Africa, and we're destroying it with pointless civil wars. Imagine an Africa in better union.
Sub Saharan Africa is crawling with endemic, chronic, virulent disease, even if one does not include Ebola, and HIV. For gosh sakes, what's so great about that?
@@2349RH Winston Churchill learnt to lead in South Africa, as did Ghandi. Dr Verwoerd was the greatest Prime Minister the Union, and the Republic ever had. Wake up, open your nose, smell the Ricoffy.
Thanks for sending that Mike- from South Africa- he used to live in Rhodesia.
Is this officially sanctioned radio banter?
+Phased Spaces Cabbage crates over the veldt!
Nope, the broadcast had all this banter cut out because civvies can't handle the fact that real soldiers are a bunch of edgybois
"K1 stoppage" at 4:13 is Alouette Mk3 Callsign K4 reporting a stoppage on his guns to the squadron leader K1. K Cars used 20mm Hispano Souza cannon mounted in the side door. G Cars used twin .303 browning mg's. Can't tell whether K1,2,3,4 were all using 20mm or if some were G Cars assigned a "K" Callsign for the raid. At 6:56 u can hear K3 firing what sounds like twin .303's & K4 reports he still has a stoppage. The 20mm sounded like 'poom-poom-poom' when heard from the ground- very accurate!
6:55 love the sound of the machine guns on the heli!
fkn beautiful! they're running right into the frags!
What really irks me is that Britain went to the ends of the earth for the fucking Falklands, but wouldn't lift a finger for Rhodesia
They worked against Rhodesia as they wanted the country to become Zimbabwe. Then in the 1980s the British military had army guys there training them - despite it being a quasi--communist country, and all of this at the height of the Cold War!
excellent video and audio. Just shows that the Rhodesian Airforce had total air supremecy as the did not bother to maintain any radio silence during the raid
Superb sang-froid Green Leader RIP sir. Your cause was a just one. Betrayed by Britain and the West.
GOD BLESS RHODESIA
"said c*nt on the tape recorder",
"Doesn't matter" lool
6:12, what did the guy say before the other guy replied with a "Yes"?
I read it as "Shall I answer them?"
@@Bearded_Tattooed_Guy Ah okay.
Hi all this is green leader.........how do you read..over........
Pilot of civil aircraft told to wait in holding pattern by ATC, Zambia 'Who's in charge down there??'
ATC Zambia 'At the moment, the Rhodesians are, over!'
You the real Green Leader? Pleased to meet you!
Hello there.
No, no. I was in the Rhodesian Security Forces but I was ground forces. This was possibly the best known of the external raids on terrorist bases, I'm just proud I was part of the whole picture.
5.5
Reading you 5's
Roger thanks. Cheers
lul
fantastic those bombs where beautifull
We have a Vampire here in Florida. I sat in once.
@MrZingy Changing the subject, could you suggest a suitable chemical to put on molehills in order to persuade them to bugger off? The littl sods are all over, or rather, UNDER my back garden!!!
South African forces were told not to go into Luanda Christmas 76 because of the CIA we should have gone in
what a great day best thing on youtube god bless those guys legends never forget what we the west did to rhodesia and how well its woked out for eveyone
Only thing missing here is about 3 A-1 skyradiers and 4 U.S. F4 Phantoms
We were soldiers!
I found an index from a military weapons manual. The index contained different weapons. Under each weapon was this standard sub-entry: "misfire, hangfire, and stoppage,"
APK
@vaun101 Agreed - the SLR is quite a heavy rifle, especially when compared to M16 / M4 derivatives. That said, the FN FAL (SLR) packs a heavier punch so its horses for courses really. I think the FN is a great old boomer & far superior to the SA80 family.
Does anyone know, are there still Canberras in Zimbabwean air force service? That's what I've heard, although they've never been photographed.
It's a damn shame what had happened in the country under Mugabe. Pity the poor civlians there. What a waste of the "Breadbasket of Africa" under his misguided handling of the country
.....it's a damn crying shame!
Can you post Edmond's Green Leader theme? It used to be here.
stobones, what was Milkfloat?? By SAS are you referring to the Rhodesian SAS??
Rhodesia forever !!!!!!!!!!
@MrZingy 9 GCSE's, 3 A-levels & and a HND in Aeronautical Engineering to be precise old bean! By the way, consider this. Many of the individuls that you are attacking on this post lost everything they had after the Bush War. Some of them will be ex servicemen who were fighting to protect their homes, livelihoods, families etc. Forget the politics, they were ordinary blokes but exceptional soldiers. I don't know who you are or what you do, but in those circumstances, what would you have done?
Bloody epic
yes consider Northern Rhodesia.. 1930 to 1963.. Britain built a country worlds 4th largest copper producer, hydro-eclectic dams, electrical infrastructure, irrigation, roads, railways, airports, cities, civil governance, armed forces, police, farms, ranches, schools, hospitals, money, cars, trucks, houses, radio-TV, modern medicines and pain killers.. the list is endless. accomplished with just 30,000 to 75,000 Europeans in just 33 years.. African population increased from 1.3 to 3.5 millions
@MrZingy Oh and what on earth does NHD stand for? I've a feeling that it isn't "national history day" though!
2:30 "I think it will be better when you've climbed up sir"
I am looking for the longer version where they talk about the 'wings falling off' . Anyone know where I can locate that.. cheers.. ;))
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still looking
Hi, not sure that was the actual name of the op, but i suspect it was. Joint op. with the recces and Rhodesian SAS in Maputo, 1978. They attempted to assasinate Mugabe, but apparently he had been tipped off and left town.
(see Killing Zone, by Harry Mccallion)
@MrZingy the only despotic maniac in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia was/is Mugabe - Nkomo and ZANU-PF. FWIW bud, losing causes are the best ones to fight...something I doubt very much you have much experience with. BTW, I was a Canadian who volunteered to serve as a Reg Force soldier in the Rhodie Army...it was the Rhodies who adopted me while I served in their army. "Pity and empty"...hardly - best time of my life spent serving and fighting with the Rhodesians - too bad you didn't.
who was green leader? does he have a name? somebody has to know....
Read Barbara Coles "The Elite - the story of the Rhodesian SAS'. Pearse was KIA attacking ZIPRA HQ's in Zambia when the bunker bomb he placed in the wall of the building caused the wall to collapse on top of him. By the way, it's 'C' Sqn RhSAS.
FUCKING BEUATIFUL STRIKE , yeahh
My father-late brother & uncles thought in the Bush War in the. 60s/70s , against the Marxist guerilla/terrorists of Mugabe . A sad sad day for Rhodessia betrayed by UK/U.S & the UN ....... R.I.P : L Cpl Bruce.J.Cocks - D Sqn RhACR aka "Black Devils" / Born : March 3 , 1958 - Died : Feburary 26 , 1979 :(
@MrZingy
An NCO is a squaddie Zingy - as opposed to a Comissioned Officer (nicknamed "Ruperts" in the Brit Army), you silly sausage!
Beautiful.... Chris Dixon is love,he is life.
Lest we forget
rhodesians...great soldiers and great, beutiful people. Ian Smith great man.
@nameofthepen yes i have read "The Protocols of Zion" lunacy
I meant wage multiple and not wage differential
Shame we couldn't see them run
GOD BLESS THE MEN FROM GREEN LEADER
my regret?...i was too young to fight for my country back then. I'll say no more than that...
Born way to late too, i'd have gladly became a foreign volunteer
Impressive audio and dialogue! Where did you come up with this, greenleader01?
I'd love to have seen the face on the poor Zambian Air traffic Controller after recieving that statement. "Oh I'm sorry can you repeat?" He was probably thinking about getting a spot to eat or something when that TX came through! Hahaha!
smoke em if ya got em!
These are Vampire Jets?
James Varela
No. Those were Canberras and hawker Hunters. There were also K-cars in that raid.
4:40
WHY DO THE GOOD GUYS ALWAYS LOOSE
anybody know ho I can get some info on captain martin pearse of 3 squadron SAS
love it!
@MrZingy
Another thing Zingy, you appear educated - good man. Well done. However, education is only validated when that education is acted upon. Its all very well being loaded down with qualifications, yet its what one DOES with them that counts. I'm not putting you down - really, but I've served my country as best I can with what I have and many of these Rhodesian guys have done just the same. Only a soldier can truly understand what combat is like & why its sadly necessary sometimes.
Poor atc guy just said copy. Probably pissed himself getting a message from a hawker Hunter.
Sorry kneeslider47 - I thought Zingy was the Brit NCO but I see it is you who were the one. I have removed my incendiary comments about both Jr & Sr NCO's...my barbs at Zingy notwithstanding.
Pity you didnt (couldnt) use a squadron of Vulcans !!
stoppage was on either one of the helicopters with heavy machine guns or the cannon on one of the other jets taking part, shame that they did not mange to use all their ammo!
Outstanding operation
So shooting the Viscounts was justified
that man at Lusaka tower seemed a bit intimidated :)
@WinchesterRanger Not enough sadly!