Bibliograph

19 with a bullet, a South African paratrooper in Angola, Granger Korff

Type

Label

19 with a bullet, a South African paratrooper in Angola, Granger Korff

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

19 with a bullet

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Granger Korff

Sub title

a South African paratrooper in Angola

Summary

A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff's two years' service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African 'bush war' in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the 'standard' counterinsurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroy SWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several massive South African Defence Force (SADF) conventional cross-border operations, such as Protea, Daisy and Carnation, into Angola to take on FAPLA (Angolan MPLA troops) and their Cuban and Soviet allies. Having grown up as an East Rand rebel street-fighter, Korff's military 'career' is marred with controversy. He is always in trouble-going AWOL on the eve of battle in order to get to the front; facing a court martial for beating up, and reducing to tears, a sergeant-major in front of the troops; fist-fighting with Drug Squad agents; arrested at gunpoint after the grueling seven-week, 700km Recce selection endurance march-are but some of the colorful anecdotes that lace this account of service in the SADF

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Nineteen with a bullet

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