19 with a bullet
Subtitle: a South African paratrooper in Angola
By: Granger Korff.
Publisher: 30° South
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781920143312
Subjects: Korff, Granger; South Africa. -- Army -- Biography; Soldiers -- South Africa -- Biography; South Africa -- History, Military -- 1961-; South Africa -- Armed Forces -- Angola; South Africa -- Armed Forces -- Namibia; Angola -- History -- South African Incursions, 1978-1990 -- Personal narratives
Genres: Biography; Personal narratives
Other titles: Nineteen with a bullet
Description: Nineteen with a bullet : a South African paratrooper in Angola is 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" counter-insurgency 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.