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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397463" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A War Story</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s a story that have being told<br>(and I do not know if there is truth to it) , <br>that after the slaughtering <br>of the 47th FAPLA / Cuban brigade at the intersection<br>of the Lomba and Cuzizi Rivers in Angola, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the mauling of several brigades on the way <br>to Cuito Cuanavale and the destruction <br>of that military airfield, the loss of many soldiers, <br>the destruction of nine Mig fighters<br>and the loss of huge amounts of Soviet equipment</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fidel Castro was very angry and in a terrible rage<br>brought his Cuban soldiers in Angola <br>up to fifty thousand, sent four hundred tanks<br>and his best pilots to Angola, <br>after the South African forces had withdrawn </div><div style="margin:10px 0">which resulted in the Mig-23 attack <br>on the Calueque dam <br>in South West Africa (now Namibia) , <br>where a Buffel troop carrier was lost<br>along with some South African soldiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">According to the story in vengeance <br>a team of elite South African <br>Reconnaissance Commandos<br>was HALO dropped equipped with <br>the Fim-92 Stinger anti-aircraft systems</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that UNITA had supplied to them, <br>along with some other weapons and equipment<br>that these special force soldiers do normally carry<br>to shoot down MIG-23’s <br>and Hind attack helicopters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that was putting UNITA under attack<br>and it has been told that they were dropped<br>near to an enemy airbase under the nose<br>of the large Russian aircraft that was scanning<br>the air for any approaching enemy activities</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where they shot down<br>several fighter jets and attack helicopters, <br>but that the section-leader<br>left one pilot to fly off after seeing him<br>making a cross, begging God for mercy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Reconnaissance Commandos managed to withdraw, <br>were extracted at the allocated extraction point<br>without any further incident with either FAPLA<br>or any Cuban enemy units<br>but the story gets much more interesting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is told that while that Recce section-leader<br>was holidaying in the United States<br>he took a taxicab from the airport to his hotel, <br>where the driver (a former Cuban pilot) recognized him<br>and that he had left Cuba as a refugee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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