Major Martin George Chikondo SCR, was by far one of the top "psuedo-operators" of the Rhodesian Bush War. He enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian African Rifles in 1970, serving for 3 years and being promoted to Lance-Corporal. His skill at soldiering was quickly...
Jim Maguire (46) a former Royal Marine from London who went on to serve in the Rhodesian and South African special forces, was a mercenary in Ivory Coast for three months.
He commissioned as a helicopter pilot in the Rhodesian Air Force, seeing active service throughout the Rhodesian Bush War. He was shot down twice by enemy fire, most notably during Operation Uric while he had flown to medevac a wounded Rhodesian SAS soldier. Dick knew...
This is the Russian F1(Ф1), a High-Explosive-Fragmentation (HE-Frag), defensive, striker-release (SR), hand-grenade, nicknamed the Limonka (lemon-like), used as an Anti-Personnel (AP) hand-grenade and also used as part of a booby-trap (BTP), it has been copied in many...
This is the American M26, a High-Explosive-Fragmentation (HE-Frag), Anti-Personnel (AP), delay (DLY) detonating, hand-grenade which has a notched fragmentation coil liner including the M26A1, A2 and A3 and is manufactured in various countries. Its distinct lemon shape...
OP URIC is the controversial operation of The Rhodesian War. Though it resulted in over 300 enemy dead for the loss of 15 of their own (the highest of the war) the Rhodesians, with their very high operational standards, did not regard it as a success. There was...
Rhodesian military operation in Zambia with clandestine assistance from the South African Air Force (SAAF) during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Rhodesian Air Force planned raids against a ZIPRA camp in Northern Zambia. The operation consisted of two raids on a ZIPRA...
Operation Mardon was a series of coordinated Rhodesian cross-border raids into Mozambique between October and December 1976, aimed at disrupting the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA). These raids involved simultaneous attacks on ZANLA camps,...
Operation Long John was an operation undertaken by the Selous Scouts of the Rhodesian Army on 25 June 1976 against two ZANLA guerrilla bases located in Mozambique near Mapai. Operation Long John was an attack on a guerrilla transit camp at Mapai and staging post...