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Originally Posted by PSM
Twenty-three years?  There were 8 POWs that were returned and several soldiers that were captured and executed.
Pat |
The war lasted from 1966 to 1989. There were four non-combatant mechanics abducted when they went to recover a vehicle in Angola who were treated as POWS by SWAPO and the MPLA and there were a few other soldiers, including a medic, Bruce Fiddler who was injured, captured, tortured and executed because he wouldn't reveal the whereabouts of his fellow medics to the enemy. Bruce got the Honorus Crux, our version of the MOH. Sapper van der Mescht was maintaining a borehole when he was captured and the two chaps with him executed . Wynand du Toit a Recce (Our SF) was wounded and captured during a sabotage mission. A few of his section were executed on site.
Incidentally, I was on an airborne raid that was, among other things, tasked to rescue van der Mescht but he had been transferred from the camp we attacked two weeks earlier