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Operation Gatling

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Operation Gatling, was launched on the 19th October 1978, was another joint-force operation between the Air Force and the Army, the main forces which contributed were Rhodesian Special Air Service and Rhodesian Light Infantry paratroopers. [1]

20 relations: Aérospatiale Alouette III, Airspace, Chris Dixon, Hawker Hunter, Ian Smith, Joshua Nkomo, Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, Lusaka, Norman Walsh, Pen and Sword Books, Peter Walls, Rhodesian Air Force, Rhodesian Bush War, Rhodesian Light Infantry, Rhodesian Security Forces, Rhodesian Special Air Service, Rufunsa District, Selous Scouts, Zambia, Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army.

Aérospatiale Alouette III

The Aérospatiale Alouette III (Lark) is a single-engine, light utility helicopter developed by French aircraft company Sud Aviation.

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Airspace

Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere.

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Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon (born 1972) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor.

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Hawker Hunter

The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Ian Smith

Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a politician, farmer and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (or Southern Rhodesia; today Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1979.

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Joshua Nkomo

Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917Jessup, John E. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996. p. 533. – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Vice President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 1999.

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Kenneth Kaunda International Airport

Kenneth Kaunda International Airport is an international airport in Lusaka, Zambia.

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Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia.

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Norman Walsh

Norman Walsh OLM BCR ESM (1932 or 1933 – 3 August 2010) was a senior officer in the Rhodesian Air Force and the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe.

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Pen and Sword Books

Pen and Sword Books is a British publisher which specializes in printing and distributing books on military history, militaria and other niche subjects.

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Peter Walls

Lieutenant General George Peter Walls GLM DCD MBE (1927-2010 Time magazine and CNN – 20 July 2010) was a Rhodesian soldier.

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Rhodesian Air Force

The Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) was an air force based in Salisbury (now Harare) which represented several entities under various names between 1935 and 1980: originally serving the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, it was the air arm of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between 1953 and 31 December 1963; of Southern Rhodesia once again from 1 January 1964; and of the unrecognised nation of Rhodesia following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain on 11 November 1965.

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Rhodesian Bush War

The Rhodesian Bush War—also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil war that took place from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia).

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Rhodesian Light Infantry

The 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI), commonly The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks (Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia) as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

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Rhodesian Security Forces

The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military forces of the Rhodesian government.

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Rhodesian Special Air Service

The Rhodesian Special Air Service or Rhodesian SAS refers to.

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Rufunsa District

Rufunsa District is a district of Zambia, located in Lusaka Province.

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Selous Scouts

The Selous Scouts was a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army that operated from 1973 until the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe in 1980.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army

Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, a Marxist–Leninist political party in Rhodesia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gatling

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