19 With a Bullet
A South African Paratrooper in Angola
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Great read!
Kind of sad-funny that the white South Africans were called racists, when almost everyone else on the continent is black, thus any country or group they make war against is war against black people. Both in Rhodesia and South Africa, many blacks backed the generally white governments, knowing that the current stability will only be upset if the often communist backed organizations are allowed to take control. Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe is still in chaos after being turned over to a number of corrupt indigenous leaders! In the US, we wiped out most of the indigenous people, but sit back and withdraw support for Rhodesia and S Africa!