SAAF's Border War: The South African Air Force in Combat 1966-89

^{Mirage F1AZ, 1 Squadron, serial 235, camouflaged in Dark Earth and Dark Green with the under surfaces in Light Admiralty Grey. This was the only aircraft in these experimental colours. Photo courtesy William Marshall}

^{Mirage F1CZ, 3 Squadron, serial 208, semi-gloss Buff and Dark Green top surface camouflage with the under surfaces in Light Admiralty Grey. Photo courtesy William Marshall}

^{Mirage F1CZ, 3 Squadron, serial 208, semi-gloss Buff and Dark Green top surface camouflage with the under surfaces in Light Admiralty Grey. Photo courtesy William Marshall}

^{Mirage IIID2Z, 85 Combat Flying School, serial 844, gloss Buff and Dark Green top surface camouflage with the under surfaces in Light Admiralty Grey. Photo courtesy William Marshall}

^{Aerospatiale, SA330 Puma, 19 Squadron, Swartkop, camouflaged in Dark Earth and Dark Green with polished air intakes. Photo courtesy William Marshall}

^{Aerospatiale, SA326 Super Frelon, 15 Squadron, camouflaged in Dark Earth and Dark Green. Photo courtesy William Marshall}

Thanks

The author and the publishers would like to extend a special thank-you to William Marshall who produced the fine aircraft colour profiles that appear in the colour section of this book. William also supplied all the colour photographs in this section.

About the Author

Peter Baxter is an author, amateur historian and African field, mountain and heritage travel guide. Born in Kenya and educated in Zimbabwe, he has lived and travelled over much of southern and central Africa. He has guided in all the major mountain ranges south of the equator, helping develop the concept of sustainable travel, and the touring of battlefield and heritage sites in East Africa. Peter lives in Oregon, USA, working on the marketing of African heritage travel as well as a variety of book projects. His interests include British Imperial history in Africa and the East Africa campaign of the First World War in particular. His first book was Rhodesia: Last Outpost of the British Empire; he has written several books in the Africa@War series, including France in Centrafrique, Selous Scouts, Mau Mau and SAAF’s Border War.

Also by Peter Baxter:

Rhodesia: Last Outpost of the British Empire

France in Centrafrique: From Bokassa and Operation Barracuda to the days of the EUFOR

Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists

Mau Mau: The Kenyan Emergency, 1952–1960

eBooks Published by Helion & Company

In the Fire of the Eastern Front. The Experiences of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer on the Eastern Front 1941-45

Hendrik C. Verton

ISBN 9781907677403

Panzer Lehr Division 1944–45 (Helion WWII German Military Studies Volume 1)

Edited and translated by Dr Frederick P Steinhardt

ISBN 9781907677151

Adventures in my Youth. A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941-1945

Armin Scheiderbauer

ISBN 9781907677496

Sniping in France 1914-18. With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers and Snipers

Major H Hesketh-Prichard DSO MC

ISBN 9781907677427

Twilight of the Gods. A Swedish Waffen-SS Volunteer’s Experiences with the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division ‘Nordland’, Eastern Front 1944-45

Thorolf Hillblad

ISBN 9781907677410

To the Bitter End. The Final Battles of Army Groups A, North Ukraine, Centre-Eastern Front, 1944-45

Rolf Hinze

ISBN 9781907677281

Penalty Strike. The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander 1943-45

Alexander V. Pyl’cyn

ISBN 9781907677533

Over Fields of Fire. Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45

Anna Timofeeva-Egorova

ISBN 9781907677557

Red Star Airacobra. Memoirs of a Soviet Fighter Ace 1941-45

Soviet Memories of War, Volume 2

Evgeniy Mariinskiy

ISBN 9781907677540

Secrets of the Cold War. US Army Europe’s Intelligence and Counter intelligence Activities against the Soviets during the Cold War

Leland C. McCaslin

ISBN 9781907677526

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941, Volume 1

The German Advance, the Encirclement Battle and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941

David M. Glantz

ISBN 9781907677502

The Battle of Spicheren August 1870

Expanded edition with new essay and bibliography by Duncan Rogers

Major G. F. R. Henderson

ISBN 9781907677571

The Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 Volume 1: The Campaign of Sedan. Helmuth von Moltke and the Overthrow of the Second Empire

Quintin Barry

ISBN 9781907677588

The Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 Volume 2: After Sedan. Helmuth von Moltke and the Defeat of the Government of National Defence

Quintin Barry

ISBN 9781907677595

Bismarck’s First War. The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864

Michael Embree

ISBN 9781907677618

Rays of the Rising Sun. Japan’s Asian Allies 1931-45 Volume 1: China and Manchukuo

Philip Jowett and John Berger

ISBN 9781907677564

A Long Long War. Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98

Ken Wharton

ISBN 9781907677601

Abolishing the Taboo: Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961

Brian Madison Jones

ISBN 9781907677809

After Stalingrad: The Red Army’s Winter Offensive 1942-1943

David M. Glantz

ISBN 9781907677823

Cataclysm: The War on the Eastern Front 1941-45

Keith Cumins

ISBN 9781907677816

Crucible of Combat: Germany’s Defensive Battles in the Ukraine, 1943-1944

Rolf Hinze

ISBN 9781907677830

‘I wouldn’t want to do it again’ D-Day in Normandy as seen through the eyes of Private Fayette O. Richardson (Pathfinder) and 1st Lt Rex G. Combs, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, US 82nd Airborne Division