Battle of Ongulumbashe
South African heliborne attack on a SWAPO military camp in the 1960s / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Ongulumbashe (also known as Operation Blouwildebees) was an armed confrontation between the South African Defence Force (SADF)/ South African Police (SAP) and the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) at Ongulumbashe in northern South West Africa (today Namibia). Though SWAPO had already carried out several attacks in 1965 and early 1966, the battle marked the first time that elements of the South African security forces directly clashed with SWAPO insurgents and is considered to be the start of the South African Border War.[1]: 44
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Part of the South African Border War | |||||||
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42 paratroops and police 7 Alouette III helicopters | 17 Insurgents | ||||||
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2 killed 1 wounded 8 captured |
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