Island at War PMC Told by the man widely

Told by the man widely regarded as the father of the SAAF's postwar radar network

PART I: UNITS OF THE SACS

Lessons learnt in the war in South Africa remain valid today

with the last major operation being two months border duty in mid-1988 during Operation Prone

this A4 glossy volume of 264 pages documents events and occurrences with photographs

Island at War PMC Told by the man widelyConcentrating on Robben Island but written against a background covering all the coastal gun batteries on the South African coastline, this book tells of the Coast Gunners themselves, the intrepid women who operated the range finding and plotting instruments, the Women's Auxiliary Naval Service (SWANS) who watched over the anti submarine fixed defences, the men of the Seaward Defence Forces who manned the degaussing depot, and the largely untold story