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Special Forces Hit ZANLA Base at Nyadzonya: August 1976 At just after midnight on the morning of Monday 09 August 1976, a column of ten Unimogs, four Ferret scout cars, and 84 officers and men of the Selous Scouts, under the command of Capt. Rob Warraker, crossed the border into Mozambique just north of Umtali. Their destination would be the…

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FRANÇOIS DARLAN, (1881-1942), French admiral.

Jean-François Darlan, Admiral of the Fleet, a title he had ordered put back into use for himself and which has…

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