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Search - Green Leader: Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy

Green Leader Operation Gatling the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy
Author: Ian Pringle

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously 18 people, including small children survived the crash, only for most of them to be gunned down in cold blood shortly after the ... more »crash by terrorists loyal to the Zimbabwe African People?s Union (ZAPU) leader Joshua Nkomo. Just days before the plane was shot down the Rhodesian leader, Ian Smith, had met secretly with Nkomo for discussions brokered by Britain, Zambia and Nigeria. However, this event dramatically changed the political landscape and wrecked a plan by the British government to mold an alliance between Smith and the Ndebele leader Nkomo, and smoothed the path for the Shona leader Robert Mugabe to become the first leader of Zimbabwe.

In this fascinating account, Ian Pringle describes the background leading up to the Viscount tragedy. He uses exclusive interviews with a survivor of the crash and the massacre, and with the first person to arrive at the horrendous crash scene (commanding officer of the Rhodesian SAS Regiment), as well as accounts from other witnesses, to recreate the tragic event. He describes the white-hot anger felt by the small white community in Rhodesia, who howled for revenge and demanded martial law and total war. The Rhodesian military responded with Operation Gatling, a risky three-phased revenge attack on Nkomo?s guerilla bases and infrastructure in Zambia. The prime target was Nkomo?s military headquarters on the outskirts of Lusaka, the Zambian capital. The author uses a cockpit voice recording from the lead Canberra bomber, and exclusive interviews with the lead navigator and pilots involved in the raid to tell a fascinating, authentic and gripping story of the audacious attack, which became known as the Green Leader Raid. On the same day as Green Leader, two more bases in Zambia were attacked using air power and elite paratroops and helitroops in a well-honed tactic known as vertical envelopment. Pringle uses his own experience as a jet and helicopter pilot, and skydiver, as well as top-secret documents and interviews with key personnel involved in Operation Gatling to recreate a gripping account of Rhodesia?s first large-scale attacks on Zambia. He describes the aftermath and just how close southern Africa came to a full-scale regional war. "Green Leader" is an exciting recreation of a calamitous time in southern African history.

ISBN-13: 9781909982932
ISBN-10: 1909982938
Publication Date: 12/19/2014
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Helion and Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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