THE SEARCH FOR A PUMA HELICOPTER LOST AT MAPAI,6 SEPTEMBER 1979

摘要

Under the cover of darkness, on the night of 6 September 1979, the writer was flown out of the forward admin area of Op Uric, situated deep in the Mozambique bush, to the Operational Forward HQ situated at Chipinda Pools. On board with him was Sgt-Maj Graham 'Log' Enslin of Support Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), whose brother Brian, a trooper with 1 Commando, was one of seventeen men killed earlier that day when their South African Air Force Puma helicopter had been shot down in the approach to the attack on the enemy base at Mapai, in Mozambique's Gaza Province.