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Portuguese Soldiers in Guinéa
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Flechas on parade – Angola
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Óscar Cardoso providing training on the handling of a 7.62mm FN MAG light machine gun to a Flecha Bushman
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Awarding of decorations to the Flechas of the province of Uíge, wearing the famous camouflage beret instituted by PIDE inspector Alves Cardoso
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A Portuguese Air Force F-84 Thunderjet being loaded with ordnance in the 1960s, at Luanda Air Base.
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A group of BCAÇ 17 Trackers somewhere in the Tete District
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Dornier Do-27 delivering mail in Mozambique
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Founder and first commanding officer of the Grupos Especiais Pára-quedistas, Colonel Costa Campos wearing the red beret of the GEP, sitting alongside the Commander in Chief of forces in Mozambique, General Kau?lza de Arriaga in an Alouette III helicopter.
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Bare-chested, First Lieutenant Pereira Bastos, commander of the 8th Special Fusiliers
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The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, was a 13-year-long conflict fought between Portugal’s military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal’s African colonies between 1961 and 1974. The Portuguese regime at the time, the Estado Novo, was overthrown by a military coup in 1974, and the change in government brought the conflict to an end.
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