I found this video on Youtube today, and having watched it, it brought back so many memories. Recently I have been doing a lot of remembering the old days, and having read the book entitled "The Unpopular War" - which had a profound effect on me 32 years after I did my National Service, I thought this video would at least explain to my kids what their "old man" HAD to do before they were born.
I guess they need to know what I have gone through to understand how I think and act the way I do now. Whilst not proud of some of the things we did, I found a newspaper cutting the other night (when looking for pictures Jan wanted for an album she is putting together for my birthday) of the first guy killed in my Squadron, Herbert Charles Truebody, and it bought all the memories flooding back. The other guy was Terry Bridgeman....
A lot of this video was shot in Walvis Bay and on the border, where I did my training and fighting. Richard, the shots of the Strikecraft may explain some of your past to your kids too, and I actually think the one shot of a buffel up on the border has me siting in my normal front R/H seat, with my head sticking up over the armoured steel...see Buffel 53A at 1:38 into the video...
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