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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of maps
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Author’s notes
A brief background
1960 – 1961
Birth of a battalion
The Congo
A Company notes
1962 – 1964
Cranborne barracks—the new home
The colours approved
The break-up of Federation—unrest begins
A Company notes
1965 – 1967
The colours and commandos
The run-up to UDI
Operation Pagoda
Operation Yodel—first real contact
Notes
Recruits’ course
Operation Nickel
1968
Operation Cauldron—baptism of fire
Operation Glove
Battalion organization and role
Tactics and kit
Commando notes
Operation Flotilla
Operation Griffin
Meat patrol
Operation Excess
A night on the parade square
Notes
1969 – 1970
Traditions
Pitman’s elephant
Notes
Exercise Rum Jungle
Operations with the Portuguese
Operation Birch
State of the nation
Trooping the colour
‘A corporal’s war’
1971 – 1972
Tenth birthday
Nicknames, flags and badges
The taal
Social misfits
Notes
Breakdown and build-up
Operation Sable
Altena Farm—the war ‘proper’ begins … again
1973 – 1975
Operation Hurricane—and ZANLA tests the waters
The ‘cordon sanitaire’ and protected villages
The Selous Scouts are formed
MT report from ‘Landmine Mac’
ZANU war communiqué
‘I am a lieutenant in the RLI …’
‘Scene’ at Madziwa
Ambush
Death of a driver
Ops in Mozambique
The Fireforce concept
A black day for 2 Commando
ZANLA on the back foot—and the Portuguese collapse
Casevac
A death at Pachanza Keep
Standing Orders for Dying
Notes
Christmas tragedy
1976
Song of the 28th
Escalation—Operations Thrasher, Repulse and Tangent
Support Group becomes a commando
Dawn joins 1 Commando
Fresh poes, nashos and foreigners
Fireforce matters
1 Commando in Operation Hurricane
3 Commando in Operation Hurricane
1 Commando at Segurança
2 Commando in Operation Hurricane
Support Commando in Operation Hurricane
3 Commando in Operation Thrasher
Battle of ‘Hill 31’
2 Commando in Operation Thrasher
1977
Bogged down in politics
Airborne
Fireforce matters
Dispatchers
I Commando attacks Mavui
Operation Aztec
Now you hold it right there!
2 Commando in Operation Hurricane
3 Commando in Operation Hurricane
Support Commando in Operation Hurricane
Operation from FAF-5
2 Commando in Operation Thrasher
3 Commando in Operation Thrasher
A gunner gets hit
Support Commando in Operation Thrasher
A tribute to a troopie
1 Commando at Malvernia
Operation Dingo—the attacks on Chimoio and Tembué
Captain Webster’s dairies
A letter from 1 Commando
1978
Just another day
A bad day for the Air Force
Politics
Operation Turmoil
‘Ceasefire’ and SFAs
Atrocities and Operation Splinter
Fireforce matters
The Troopie Statue
Notes
Casualty rates and strengths
Strange and other happenings
1 Commando in Operation Hurricane
3 Commando in Operation Hurricane
3 Commando in Operation Thrasher
Support Commando in Operation Hurricane
Support Commando history and structure
Operation Snoopy
Operation Gatling
Captain Webster’s diary
The RLI’s ‘Lifesaver’
1979
Zimbabwe–Rhodesia and Lancaster House
Fireforce matters
Notes
3 Commando in Operation Thrasher
2 Commando in Operation Thrasher
Support Commando in Operation Thrasher
2 Commando in Operation Repulse
3 Commando in Operation Hurricane
3 Commando in Operation Repulse
Operation Oppress
First contact, first kill
Operation Uric
Operation Miracle
Operation Cheese
Operation Tepid
Captain Webster’s dairies
The last casualty
The last contact
1980
The beginning of the end
Phase 1—ceasefire
Phase 2—planning in political defeat
Phase 3—elections
Phase 4—the end approaches
The final parade
Postscript
Afterword
Timeline
Glossary
Senior Personnel
Lists of Battalion Commanding Officers
Regimental Sergeants-Major
Officers Commanding
Commando Sergeants-Major
Adjutants
Seconds-in-Command
Biographies of Commanding Officers
Regimental Sergeants-Major
Honours and awards
Citations
Roll of Honour
Note from the publisher
The RLI Regimental Association
Photographic credits
The Subscribers
eBooks Published by Helion & Company
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