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Published by Helion & Company 2013

Designed and typeset by Farr out Publications, Wokingham, Berkshire
Cover designed by Euan Carter, Leicester (www.euancarter.com)
Printed by Gutenberg Press Limited, Tarxien, Malta

Text © Al J. Venter 2013
Maps © as follows – Africa 1974 © Al J. Venter; Angola at the end of the war in 1974 © Dr
Richard Wood; Portuguese Guinea © Al J. Venter; Coastal regions of Portuguese Guinea
© Revista da Armada; Mozambique © Dr John P. Cann.
Photographs © Al J. Venter unless noted otherwise

ISBN: 978 1 909384 57 6
EPUB ISBN: 978 1 910294 30 7

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Front cover: Portuguese marines on patrol in Guinea waters. (Author’s photo). Rear cover:
When a vehicle hit a mine, there were invariably casualties, which was when the air force
would be tasked with uplifting casualties and flying them to the nearest hospital. In this
stretch of the “Hell Run” – from the Zambezi to Mwanza, on the Malawi border – it would
have been the clinic at Tete. (Author’s photo)

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