6 January 2012

Due to a Page Sponsorship the first few issues of the Newsletters of Volume 3 will be open and free for download to all users, but thereafter you will have to LOG ON to download the Newsletter yourself every week. Public Users will no longer have direct access to non-sponsored Newsletters, only Registered Users (which includes all PREMIUM MEMBERS as well).

Only PREMIUM MEMBERS will continue to receive the Newsletter as an attachment. 

The Newsletter always remains free, except that it can only be downloaded by Registered Users.

Registration to this site is free, and if you are not a Registered User as yet, you can Register here...

If you ARE a Registered member then use the Login entry boxes and button in the top right column on this page to LOG IN.

Once logged in, you will see all Newsletters of Volume 3 made available for download on this page. There will continue to be four different quality versions for each Newsletter to facilitate your best printing and download requirements.

All Registered Users will still receive an e-mail with the War In Angola Announcements which will announce each issue as they are released, with a link to THIS page.

Should you be unable to log in and download the newsletters, please do not hesitate to notify me so that I can make an alternative plan. I really do NOT want to deny any Registered User of his copy of the WIA Newsletter...;-)

All the best and enjoy. Thank you for your feedback and support.

Regards

Johan Schoeman

The cost of sponsoring a page is nominal, amounting to R300 ($45 or £30) per single page (there are 12 pages in every issue) for a period of two months, or across 8 issues! It gets sent out to every registered user, of which there are some 800 at the moment! This figure increases by between 30 and 60 new users every month.

If you are interested in sponsoring a page, please let me know by emailing me at johan@warinangola.com

Welcome to the THIRD VOLUME of the War In Angola Newsletters. Coming In the following volume of 26 issues, look out for the following features:

•  We start a new series of articles of OPERATION SAVANNAH from March 2012; which will include the battles and clashes at Norton de Matos, Artur de Paiva, Evale, and Perreira de Eça;
• The Prelude to the participation of the South African defence Force to the Angolan Civil War will continue with articles on the support and aid provided to the FNLA and UNITA;
• We will look at the actions in Northern Angola during 1975; culminating in the Attack on Luanda and the subsequent withdrawal from Ambrizete;
• Featured Equipment will focus on landmines, mine detectors, night scopes and radios used by both sides;
• Operation Hooper will conclude with “The second attack on Tumpo”;
• The final big battle and encounters of Operations Packer and Displace will be covered;
• Extracts from the ‘Memoirs of a Russian Advisor’ will continue with the second set of the 52 parts which started in the second volume;
• A series of articles on Operations Olyfhout, Super and Boomslang will be coinciding with the thirtieth commemoration of those operations in 1982;
• Danie Matthee’s series of Afrikaans articles on the experiences of army life will continue with “Ag man dit ‘WAS’ lekker in die Army”;
• Unit Flashes with a short history following in the subsequent issue will start again in this issue;
• This past week: “Somewhere on the Border…”, starting with events from as far back as 1960 and before...
• The coming week’s military and military hobby related events will continue to be listed;
• Special offers on books, models, posters, and other items of interest that you can order, may be featured every week;
• The past week’s latest Forum posts (about 9 of them) will again be listed on the final page.
• Separate articles from the WarBlogs as well as the War In Angola websites may be included on an ad-hoc basis;
• Contributions made by members of the War In Angola website may also be considered for inclusion in future issues.