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19 With a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola Having grown up as an East Rand rebel street-fighter, Korff’s military ‘career’ is marred with controversy.A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years&rs
| Title | : | 19 With a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (195 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 1920143319 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-04-01 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the ‘standard’ counterinsurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroy SWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several massive South African Defence Force (SADF) conventional cross-border operations, such as Protea, Daisy and Carnation, into Angola to take on FAPLA (Angolan MPLA troops) and their Cuban and Soviet allies. Having grown up as an East Rand rebel street-fighter, Korff’s military ‘career’ is marred with controversy. He is always in troublegoing AWOL on the eve of battle in order to get to the front; facing a court martial for beating up, and reducing to tears, a sergeant-major in front of the troops; fist-fighting with Drug Squad agents; arrested at gunpoint after the
GRANGER KORFF 1960—Cassius Clay won Olympic gold in Rome; the Beatles made their debut in Germany; apartheid was ‘booming’ in South Africa; and Granger Korff was born on the East Rand near Johannesburg. “The apartheid system was sewn tight as a Zulu drum and the country moved to a slow beat,” he says of the times. He grew up in the mining town of Benoni, a quiet child initially, before ‘enjoying’ a colorful school career as a musician and quick-fisted rebel, attending a string of different schools for a string of different reasons. He graduated in 1979—alone from the public library. After an action-packed two years fighting in the African bush, Granger took a newfound anger with him to the professional boxing ring where he quickly gained a reputation as one of the most exciting young middle-weight fighters in the country. In 1985, plagued by his demons from the bush war, he travelled to the USA on a four-month boxing/vacation walka
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