How’d they get there?

I doubt if despatch records for the Series III Lightweight contain any reference to vehicles being shipped to Angola during the civil war in the 1980s. But I believe about 40 were sent out to UNITA forces – about half of them had 14.5mm anti-aircraft cannons, and the other half were gunship-types that carried a 106mm anti-tank weapon. So how did they get there? Well, I was told many years ago by Bert Sachse, who owned the gunship pictured, that they came from a government that was sympathetic to the UNITA cause. Tracing the VIN of this vehicle (SALLBBAH2AA-237384), I find that it was shipped to neighbouring Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in April 1986. Whether Zaire was the sympathetic government involved, we’ll never know. But what was it doing between…

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