19 With a Bullet
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19 With a Bullet

A South African Paratrooper in Angola

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

19 With a Bullet

A South African Paratrooper in Angola

About this book

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' in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the 'standard' counterinsurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroy SWAPO 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 East Rand rebel street-fighter, Korff's military 'career' is marred with controversy. He is always in trouble—going AWOL on the eve of battle in order to get to the front; facing a court martial for beating up, and reducing to tears, a sergeant-major in front of the troops; fist-fighting with Drug Squad agents; arrested at gunpoint after the grueling seven-week, 700km Recce selection endurance march—are but some of the colorful anecdotes that lace this account of service in the SADF.

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Table of contents

  1. Understanding the Border War between Angola, SWAPO and South Africa
  2. Howzit
  3. Growing up in South Africa
  4. SWAPO—the bush war on the Angolan/South West African border
  5. Into the army
  6. 1 Parachute Battalion
  7. Jump course
  8. 1 Reconnaissance Commando selection course
  9. Now what?
  10. Gatvol
  11. Back to 1 Parachute Battalion
  12. Ondangwa—1 Parachute Battalion’s operational base on the border
  13. Into Angola
  14. Base nights
  15. First blood
  16. Contact
  17. 32 Battalion
  18. Free Nelson Mandela
  19. Back into Angola—Operation Ceiling, June 1981
  20. Dawn ambush—‘Take no prisoners; kill them all’
  21. Deadly clash with FAPLA
  22. More contact
  23. Bush justice
  24. Hidden from view
  25. Court martial
  26. Operation Protea—August 1981
  27. Trenches and bunkers
  28. 21 at last
  29. The end of Operation Protea
  30. Glorious 21-day pass
  31. Operation Daisy—October/November 1981
  32. Enough is enough
  33. Epilogue—March 2008