Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was fought intermittently between 14 August 1987 and 23 March 1988, south and east of the town of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and advisors and soldiers from Cuba, USSR, Vietnam, PR Congo, ANC and SWAPO against apartheid South Africa, and insurgents of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War. The battle was the largest engagement of the Angolan conflict and the biggest conventional battle on the African continent since World War II. UNITA and its South African allies defeated a major FAPLA offensive towards Mavinga, preserving the former's control of southern Angola. They proceeded to launch a bloody but inconclusive c
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Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was fought intermittently between 14 August 1987 and 23 March 1988, south and east of the town of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and advisors and soldiers from Cuba, USSR, Vietnam, PR Congo, ANC and SWAPO against apartheid South Africa, and insurgents of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War. The battle was the largest engagement of the Angolan conflict and the biggest conventional battle on the African continent since World War II. UNITA and its South African allies defeated a major FAPLA offensive towards Mavinga, preserving the former's control of southern Angola. They proceeded to launch a bloody but inconclusive c
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A Batalha de Cuíto Cuanavale f ...... que vigorava na África do Sul.
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Die Schlacht von Cuito Cuanava ...... Brigadegeneral/Generalmajor .
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La Batalla de Cuito Cuanavale ...... ciembre de 1988 en Nueva York.
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La bataille de Cuito-Cuanavale ...... ie (alors Sud-Ouest africain).
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La batalla de Cuito Cuanavale ...... desembre de 1988 a Nova York.
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The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale ...... om Angola and Namibia by 1991.
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Битва при Квито-Кванавале (пор ...... Анголы и Намибии к 1991 году.
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1 aircraft crashed
2 aircraft shot down
3,000 dead
5 Ratels lost
5 tanks lost (2 recovered)
6 other armoured vehicles lost
90 wounded
combatant
**South West African Territorial Force(SWATF)
*22pxCuban Revolutionary Armed Forces(FAR)
*Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola(FALA)
*People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola(FAPLA)
*People's Liberation Army of Namibia(PLAN)
*Umkhonto we Sizwe(MK)
*border|23pxSouth African Defence Force
African National Congress
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola(UNITA)
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date
1987-08-14
1988-03-23
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*FAPLA repulse a South African counter attack near the Tumpo River
*Round One ofTripartite Accordtalks commences
*South African allies defeat a ...... 's control of southern Angola.
*Withdrawal over several month ...... navale underOperation Displace
Tactically Inconclusive
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(later up to 18,000)
(later up to 3,000)
1 battery ofValkiri
1 troop ofG6howitzers
1,000 advisory personnel
12 multirole fighter aircraft
120Ratelinfantry fighting vehicles
13Olifanttanks
150T-55/62tanks
2 batteries ofG5howitzers
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Vietnam,Soviet union,East Germany,Peoples republic of Congo
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* Armed Forces for the Liberat ...... West African Territorial Force
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National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
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People's Republic of Angola
* ...... al Congress
*Umkhonto we Sizwe
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Abreu Kamorteiro
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Andreas Liebenberg
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António França
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Arlindo Pena Ben-Ben
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Arnaldo Ochoa
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Demosthenes Amos Chilingutila
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Deon Ferreira
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Leopoldo Cintra Frías
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Magnus Malan
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Petr Gusev
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conflict
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
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partof
and the South African Border War
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the Angolan Civil War
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Tactically Inconclusive
*South ...... partite Accord talks commences
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A Batalha de Cuíto Cuanavale f ...... esde a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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Die Schlacht von Cuito Cuanava ...... a zu zu zwingen, war erreicht.
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La Batalla de Cuito Cuanavale ...... a de la Frontera de Sudáfrica.
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La bataille de Cuito-Cuanavale ...... ie (alors Sud-Ouest africain).
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La batalla de Cuito Cuanavale ...... de la frontera de Sud-àfrica.
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The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale ...... ch a bloody but inconclusive c
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Битва при Квито-Кванавале (пор ...... udando Octubre) в августе 1987
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Bataille de Cuito Cuanavale
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Batalha de Cuito Cuanavale
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Batalla de Cuito Cuanavale
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Batalla de Cuito Cuanavale
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Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
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Schlacht bei Cuito Cuanavale
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Битва при Квито-Кванавале
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