As a U.S. Citizen I listen to the Green leader recording and I am overcome with a fierce sense of patriotism as if I too were a Rhodesian , it makes Me wish I were a Rhodesian and part of their fighting Forces. I can only imagine the feeling of immense pride that washed over each non communist Rhodesian upon hearing that broadcast over their Radio’s live.
Thank you for doing justice to the history of a forgotten war ! Never underestimate a Rhodesian with his back against the wall ! Rest in Peace brothers ! 🙏🏻
Youre back! Youre one of the most incredible rhodesian-historian ive met here. The documentaries you make are vital. Its hard to find any information on rhodesia. Thank you for coming back!
Very interesting, starting to understand what was really going on in Rhodesia as opposed to what Glo Baal media was telling me as I grew up in England in the 70's! Thanks for posting.
It was with great frustration when we heard of this Viscount being downed, as we were patrolling in the area where the plane came down. A couple of days before this happened, we had a contact and captured a terrorist, he was choppered back to one of the field hospitals', for interrogation and we heard no more. Strangely, we were transferred to the other end of the country, to do a non-entity operation.
As a I'm very thankful and highly appreciate your videos, Your probably the only one bothering to make these Videos in a Non-Bias way and for the sake of the Military History itself without the Political atmosphere, There's barely any videos looking into the Bush War or any of the individual Operations, So thank you for doing this work and taking the time Dude, Means a lot for Anyone who love Strategy and Tactics.
Just started learning about Rhodesia and the Bush Wars. Your videos are very professionally made and I believe your channel definitely deserves more subscribers and attention. You earned a sub👍
Except for your pronunciation of a few names, this is a very good summation of an incredible feat by Rhodesia. South Africa learned a lot from Rhodesian operations and even covertly participated in one form or another in these operations.
@AnecdotesofHistory Everyone butchers someone else's names.. I am no different from you, to be honest. I mistakenly used an Afrikaans pronunciation of SA for the Sturmabteilung, saying ess-ah instead of ess-ay. I confused the heck out of my history teacher... she started calling them SA/SR because of me.
@frogfinance4605 Two pariah states struggling to keep their heads above the water... little brother loses out every time. You're talking about politicians who would do anything to stay in power. You are also comparing two different ideologies, and the Afrikaaner remembered the Jameson Raid and the support Britain got from Rhodesia during the Boer War. My family descended from a Scotsman who came to SA in 1820, married a Boer woman and eventually our family became wholly Afrikaans. Until my grandfather married a Scot woman, so our branch of the family became English-speaking South Africans again. The Afrikaans side never forgave this. I met the same attitude during my National Service. It did not matter that my family fought the English, or that there are women and children of my direct family are buried at Irene Concentration Camp. No, what mattered to them is that I spoke English at home. So is there any wonder why the National Party thought of its own selfish needs before Rhodesia's needs? I went to boarding school in Northern Transvaal with a lot of Rhodesian kids in the 70s and 1980. I lost contact with them after leaving that school in 1981, but many of them didn't finish the 1980 school term anyway. It was only when I was older that I realized most of my friends had emigrated and lost everything. I still think of them now.
Incredible video as always, unfortunately with how long it probably takes to make these it doesn't help with the TH-cam algorithm as the uploads aren't super regular but you deserve and will eventually blow up with this amount of detail! Also Where did you manage to get copies of the books in the description? Always out of print everywhere I look! Also what other books would you recommend on the war in general?
Smiths Bitter Harvest is really difficult to get your hands on. I don’t think you can get a physical copy for a reasonable price. As for Ian Pringle’s book on operation Gatling, you can find it on Amazon .
I think that if that Moorcraft's the Rhodesian War is a good read if you want a critical look at the Bush War. However, if you want to read something that is enjoyable my reccomendation would be a Handful of Hard Men.
Sep 78 arbeitete ich für die Rho-German Graphite Mine (the Rhodies called it Lynx Mine) als Security Officer, nördlich von Karoi. Der Abschuss war ca. 40 km östlich von uns. Auch wieder so eine unnötige Aktion....die Rhodesier machten sich überhaupt keine Gedanken über Sicherheitsmassnahmen. Später arbeitete ich für die Rhodesian Railway Security...auch dasselbe...keine bewachten Brücken, keine gesicherten Bahnhöfe und Schaltstellen...5 russische Partisanen hätten das Land in 2 Tagen lahmgelegt....man kann es nicht glauben, die "Guerilla" (Zipra und Zanu) schaffte es nicht die Eisenbahnverbindungen und die Strassenverbindungen in den Süden auch nur Stundenweise zu unterbrechen.....es wurden Gräben über einige Hauptverbindungsstrassen gegraben (Nachts)....stundenlang mit enormen Personaleinsatz....die waren nach 10 Minuten wieder aufgefüllt
@@jurgen7579Leider war die Regierung von Rhodesien kompromittiert, da sie einen Spion in ihren Reihen hatte. Dieser Spion übermittelte alle rhodesischen Militäroperationspläne an seinen "Handler" in einem großen Inselstaat im Nordatlantik. 🤐
hello, me and a small team are trying to recreate this operation in a game, would you have an email to communicate with? If yes, I can provide the credits for you.
Hi John, Your criticism suggests you watched it very closely (which I hope means you enjoyed it). To answer your question, I made the DC3 and Canberra models myself on photoshop and mixed them up in editing. These videos involve thousands of 'moving parts' meaning that I am bound to make a few mistakes. While I catch most of them in my revision phase, the Dakota model simply slipped through the cracks. I hope that answers your question. - William
@@AnecdotesofHistory Indeed! usually a very one sided view of this history, I suspect many objective observers think the "wrong" side won looking at Zimbabwe (and indeed most of Africa!) today.. I love the "Cheers" at the end of Green Leader's transmission.
If I had to guess, I’d say the tip off was of an assassination attempt rather than a full scale assault given he wasn’t attending yet they didn’t move troops, no need to move troops if an assassination target fails to show.
Tip-off was probably via Ken Flower head of Rhodesian Intelligence who was probably working for MI6. Would be interesting to know how much British Military intelligence knew about all of these raids, and at what level the decision to selectively avoid the assassination, but allow the raid was taken.
@@farinatty Absolutely. It would be fascinating to know especially since the British were one of the parties trying to broker a ZAPU-Rhodesian coalition.
@@farinatty Yes - among others. Hannes Wessels book on the life of PK Van Der Byl goes into a bit of detail about this. Fantastic book. Highly recommend reading it.
The outlines of planes used when mentioning the Canberra Bombers are incorrect and appropriate For the WW2 era C-47’ s that transported the Paratroop section’s
You have a sharp eye Steven! The worst part is that I made the models on photoshop myself and labeled them DAK.png. With all the "moving parts" in one of these videos, I was bound to make some mistakes.
Thank you for your kind words. I will admit that Ian Pringle's books helped a great deal with my videos on Operation Gatling and Dingo. If you like the focus on specific operations, check out his books.
@@frogfinance4605 you keep your comment to your own small brain. I fought against the both and I and my fellow soldiers know who we would have fought against. Go sit in your dunce corner.
Mukushi camp was primarily female ZIPRA trainees. You had asked "why weren't these camps evacuated if Nkomo knew an attack was imminent"? Perhaps it was in the best interest of Zipra to have these camps hit, with the female trainees taking massive casualties, that way they could cry to the international press about "Rhodesians deliberately killing women and children". this has always been a tactic of the Marxists, to put non combatants in harms way in order to discredit the enemy. (although in the case of Mukushi, the women were being trained as Zipra combatants), therefore they were a legit target for Rhodesia.
As a U.S. Citizen I listen to the Green leader recording and I am overcome with a fierce sense of patriotism as if I too were a Rhodesian , it makes Me wish I were a Rhodesian and part of their fighting Forces. I can only imagine the feeling of immense pride that washed over each non communist Rhodesian upon hearing that broadcast over their Radio’s live.
Thank you for doing justice to the history of a forgotten war ! Never underestimate a Rhodesian with his back against the wall ! Rest in Peace brothers ! 🙏🏻
Thank you for what you do, now we can listen to Green Leader with a greater appreciation.
Youre back! Youre one of the most incredible rhodesian-historian ive met here. The documentaries you make are vital. Its hard to find any information on rhodesia.
Thank you for coming back!
Thank you for your kind words. These documentaries are very time intensive on my end, so all the positive comments are appreciated.
It's correct to say that Smithy didn't pay attention to the locals as much as he should have.
very nice you deserve more recognition
Nice to see another video!
Very interesting, starting to understand what was really going on in Rhodesia as opposed to what Glo Baal media was telling me as I grew up in England in the 70's!
Thanks for posting.
It was with great frustration when we heard of this Viscount being downed, as we were patrolling in the area where the plane came down.
A couple of days before this happened, we had a contact and captured a terrorist, he was choppered back to one of the field hospitals', for interrogation and we heard no more. Strangely, we were transferred to the other end of the country, to do a non-entity operation.
Excellent presentation!! Thank you for doing this video.
As a I'm very thankful and highly appreciate your videos, Your probably the only one bothering to make these Videos in a Non-Bias way and for the sake of the Military History itself without the Political atmosphere, There's barely any videos looking into the Bush War or any of the individual Operations, So thank you for doing this work and taking the time Dude, Means a lot for Anyone who love Strategy and Tactics.
This along with your Operation Eland and Dingo videos are all gold. Thanks for putting these out!
Just started learning about Rhodesia and the Bush Wars. Your videos are very professionally made and I believe your channel definitely deserves more subscribers and attention.
You earned a sub👍
Thank you. I think my lack of subscribers is due to the fact that I upload pretty sporadically and the topic of Rhodesia is pretty niche.
Very well researched and presented documentary, the quality is absolutely fantastic
Wonderful video, thank you! Also your on screen animations are great.
A year away but I am glad you have gotten back into this channel.
Except for your pronunciation of a few names, this is a very good summation of an incredible feat by Rhodesia.
South Africa learned a lot from Rhodesian operations and even covertly participated in one form or another in these operations.
That is a fair critism. It can be difficult for me to use the correct pronunciation as I rely primarily on written sources.
@AnecdotesofHistory Everyone butchers someone else's names.. I am no different from you, to be honest.
I mistakenly used an Afrikaans pronunciation of SA for the Sturmabteilung, saying ess-ah instead of ess-ay.
I confused the heck out of my history teacher... she started calling them SA/SR because of me.
also stabbed Rhodesia in the back
@frogfinance4605 Two pariah states struggling to keep their heads above the water... little brother loses out every time.
You're talking about politicians who would do anything to stay in power.
You are also comparing two different ideologies, and the Afrikaaner remembered the Jameson Raid and the support Britain got from Rhodesia during the Boer War.
My family descended from a Scotsman who came to SA in 1820, married a Boer woman and eventually our family became wholly Afrikaans. Until my grandfather married a Scot woman, so our branch of the family became English-speaking South Africans again.
The Afrikaans side never forgave this. I met the same attitude during my National Service.
It did not matter that my family fought the English, or that there are women and children of my direct family are buried at Irene Concentration Camp. No, what mattered to them is that I spoke English at home.
So is there any wonder why the National Party thought of its own selfish needs before Rhodesia's needs?
I went to boarding school in Northern Transvaal with a lot of Rhodesian kids in the 70s and 1980. I lost contact with them after leaving that school in 1981, but many of them didn't finish the 1980 school term anyway.
It was only when I was older that I realized most of my friends had emigrated and lost everything.
I still think of them now.
Incredible video as always, unfortunately with how long it probably takes to make these it doesn't help with the TH-cam algorithm as the uploads aren't super regular but you deserve and will eventually blow up with this amount of detail!
Also Where did you manage to get copies of the books in the description? Always out of print everywhere I look! Also what other books would you recommend on the war in general?
Smiths Bitter Harvest is really difficult to get your hands on. I don’t think you can get a physical copy for a reasonable price. As for Ian Pringle’s book on operation Gatling, you can find it on Amazon .
I think that if that Moorcraft's the Rhodesian War is a good read if you want a critical look at the Bush War. However, if you want to read something that is enjoyable my reccomendation would be a Handful of Hard Men.
ArchiveDOTorg. De rien/De nada 😬
Also, another excellent read is, "The Elite: The Story of the Rhodesian Special Air Service" by Barbara Cole (published 1984).
I love these videos. If you keep this quality up you could blow up
The aircraft silhouettes during the initial discussion of the Canberra bombers are Douglas DC-3 Dakotas
Good catch, FarZ. It was an oversight on my end. Must have confused my Dakota and Canberra files!
Good video.
There's a lot of stuff on the 2nd Bush War...
Rhodesia was very badly treated.
Still today the story of these operations make me feel so proud of been a Rhodesian, well done😊
11:55
Oops, that's not Green Leader's picture.
Five Romeo Five sent me. Deo Vindice.
Salute and Respect
Herrlich. Danke.
Sep 78 arbeitete ich für die Rho-German Graphite Mine (the Rhodies called it Lynx Mine) als Security Officer, nördlich von Karoi. Der Abschuss war ca. 40 km östlich von uns. Auch wieder so eine unnötige Aktion....die Rhodesier machten sich überhaupt keine Gedanken über Sicherheitsmassnahmen. Später arbeitete ich für die Rhodesian Railway Security...auch dasselbe...keine bewachten Brücken, keine gesicherten Bahnhöfe und Schaltstellen...5 russische Partisanen hätten das Land in 2 Tagen lahmgelegt....man kann es nicht glauben, die "Guerilla" (Zipra und Zanu) schaffte es nicht die Eisenbahnverbindungen und die Strassenverbindungen in den Süden auch nur Stundenweise zu unterbrechen.....es wurden Gräben über einige Hauptverbindungsstrassen gegraben (Nachts)....stundenlang mit enormen Personaleinsatz....die waren nach 10 Minuten wieder aufgefüllt
@@jurgen7579Leider war die Regierung von Rhodesien kompromittiert, da sie einen Spion in ihren Reihen hatte. Dieser Spion übermittelte alle rhodesischen Militäroperationspläne an seinen "Handler" in einem großen Inselstaat im Nordatlantik. 🤐
many thanks. A lot of info here.
hello, me and a small team are trying to recreate this operation in a game, would you have an email to communicate with? If yes, I can provide the credits for you.
anecdotesofhistory@gmail.com
What's the game?
Sloppy graphics! Why use DC3 when talking about Canberras?
Hi John,
Your criticism suggests you watched it very closely (which I hope means you enjoyed it). To answer your question, I made the DC3 and Canberra models myself on photoshop and mixed them up in editing. These videos involve thousands of 'moving parts' meaning that I am bound to make a few mistakes. While I catch most of them in my revision phase, the Dakota model simply slipped through the cracks. I hope that answers your question. - William
@@AnecdotesofHistory Indeed! usually a very one sided view of this history, I suspect many objective observers think the "wrong" side won looking at Zimbabwe (and indeed most of Africa!) today.. I love the "Cheers" at the end of Green Leader's transmission.
O7 Green leader keeping them north of the Zambezi
If I had to guess, I’d say the tip off was of an assassination attempt rather than a full scale assault given he wasn’t attending yet they didn’t move troops, no need to move troops if an assassination target fails to show.
Tip-off was probably via Ken Flower head of Rhodesian Intelligence who was probably working for MI6. Would be interesting to know how much British Military intelligence knew about all of these raids, and at what level the decision to selectively avoid the assassination, but allow the raid was taken.
@@farinatty Absolutely. It would be fascinating to know especially since the British were one of the parties trying to broker a ZAPU-Rhodesian coalition.
@@farinatty You are spot on. For those unknowing... City of London > MI6 > Globalist Capitalism. Know thy true and only enemy.
@@farinatty Yes - among others. Hannes Wessels book on the life of PK Van Der Byl goes into a bit of detail about this. Fantastic book. Highly recommend reading it.
Excellent quality
The demise of Green Leader , pls tell us more about it
Nice work. id like to see you cover "operation miracle" 1979.
Amazing
Thank you for your kind words. This video took a lot out of me, so I hope it blows up!
The outlines of planes used when mentioning the Canberra Bombers are incorrect and appropriate For the WW2 era C-47’ s that transported the Paratroop section’s
4 Cans, but you show Dakota's? Thanks for remembering our regions history nonetheless
You have a sharp eye Steven! The worst part is that I made the models on photoshop myself and labeled them DAK.png. With all the "moving parts" in one of these videos, I was bound to make some mistakes.
nice
The photo is not Chris Dixon
Do you know who it is?
yea I see that. See my post above ZIPRA became serious soldiers
Would you be so kind to provide sources?
In the description.
@@AnecdotesofHistory, thanks, sorry: I had taken it as part of the ST.
@@AnecdotesofHistory, awesome work you're doing here, btw.
There is no such tribe called “N’da’bela”! There IS however a tribe called N’deh’ beh’ LEH!!!!
best historian on the bush war
Thank you for your kind words. I will admit that Ian Pringle's books helped a great deal with my videos on Operation Gatling and Dingo. If you like the focus on specific operations, check out his books.
There is no such place called Ca’ribah…. There is however a place called KAH’ Reeee bah!!!
ZIPRA was trained by the Russians? NO WONDER THEY WERE SO INCOMPETENT.
they were far better than ZANLA d o you even know what you are talking about?????? At the end of the war they were serious soldiers!!!!
@@derekallan1341
If he thinks Russians are incompetent
he's obviously a propaganda junkie
@@derekallan1341 rofl, no they werent
@@frogfinance4605 you keep your comment to your own small brain. I fought against the both and I and my fellow soldiers know who we would have fought against. Go sit in your dunce corner.
Awsome...🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉...regret being just too young to join the RLI...
Mukushi camp was primarily female ZIPRA trainees. You had asked "why weren't these camps evacuated if Nkomo knew an attack was imminent"? Perhaps it was in the best interest of Zipra to have these camps hit, with the female trainees taking massive casualties, that way they could cry to the international press about "Rhodesians deliberately killing women and children". this has always been a tactic of the Marxists, to put non combatants in harms way in order to discredit the enemy. (although in the case of Mukushi, the women were being trained as Zipra combatants), therefore they were a legit target for Rhodesia.