Angola 1961, operation Viriato, the beginning of a historical journey. This video is posted for the enjoyment of the viewers. The music belong to is owner. I do not own this song, or any part of this video.
These images are about the very first military mission in Angola after the first attack by the liberation movement UPLA in 1961. It was done with regular military with what was at hand at the time. In a couple of years everything changed. The army and the special forces were using H&K G3, FEN FAL, M16, Walter Pistols, MG 45 machine guns, and troops were deployed by helicopters, in Angola Pumas elsewhere Alouette III's. Would use Fiat G91 fighter-bombers at least until SAM3's were available for the freedom fighters, would use fast patrol boats for the riverine wars in Guinea. THis wasn't a landscape proper to use heavy armor, so Unimogs and light armoured cars were the best option for those jungles when roads were available. Many huge operations were conducted including bold amphibious operations in neighbor countries to free Portuguese war prisoners. Operations like "Mar Verde", "Anetista Real" or "Trident", still today are case studies in guerrilla warfare and would have become Hollyhood blockbusters if performed by the US... Anyway, we could manage to deploy a fairly well equipped army for those days, and well trained troops in 3 theaters of operations thousands of km away from Europe but at the cost of almost 40% of our GDP... and all the consequences of that stupid move (to accept that war). This was a war that couldn't be won, especially with the support of the Soviets, the Chinese and all those Marxist African regimes, nevertheless, we can say today that the situation was controlled in every theater of operations until the end.
@@1vespa those 40 percent of the gdp also include development pacakegs for the oversea procinces to include roads, financial investments, the building of water dams and other infrastructure
@@wistonlawsons4443 No, for that, there were the local ultramarine territories budgets, they coined their own money and collected their own taxes. Ultramarine provinces had a governor and were governed as independent countries. For example, Angolan crude revenues were used for local infrastructures. Meanwhile the budget for the ultramarine wars was taken from the mainland budget... yeah, I guess that we weren't that much extractive as other European colonizers, at least in the final decades of the 2nd republic.
@@1vespa with the UN complaining complaint saying they were colony and portugal saying they were oversea territories and with the deepen of the gorila warfare expanding to all the territories the state started creating economic packages to help develop those states. They saw a growth over 20% at times. Such policies included farming projects with finance farming equipment and long term land loans so it would attract more people to the depopulated interior. Yes they coined their own money but most of them needed money from the state almost every year. The only ones financial stable from data I have seen was goa and Macao at times.
yes, in 1961,(the year of this footage), the Mauser 1937 has the padron rifle of the portuguese army. The only exception has the special hunters companies that receved the brand new FN Fal before going to Angola
@@nickschmitz841 3:25 and 4:47 you can see the Walther. It has adopted by the portuguese army in 1961 and has used mostly by officers. The Walther P38 has used along side the Luger P08 adopted 1943. The Luger has, actualy, more popular along side high officers and generals.
@@Tiago-sf3wg I have heard of the possibility of the 937 being present in Angola but I never thought I would see actual footage. If you have any more, is love to see. Do you have any footage of the uprising of FRELIMO in East Africa ?
I believe this are imagens from the first incursions in Angola after the inicial bloody sublevations in the Angola north near the border with belgium Congo, nowdays Zaire. Rifles and uniforms would be upgrades soon. The commander is algarvian i believe, Captain or Major Maçanita at the time. After they reached the city they were surrounded by poorly armed enemies who believed to BE invencível and imune to bullets... The result was very bad for hundreds of them. Another stupid war... Mankind must evolve to avoid violence, or we are all doomed. Peace! Unfortunaly meanwhile we still need weapons to keep it.
5:15 the jeep has "may god follow me" on the front bumper Also not all the casualties in the front line were due to gunfire, some soldiers got injured or killed by speers, machetes and wildlife.
The dominoes truly did fall in South Africa by 1980. First Zambia (thanks largely to the ANC), then Angola and Mozambique, then Rhodesia, then the Republic of South Africa. The Rhodesians had to deal with Communist guerrillas coming in through Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia. The South Africans had to deal with them in Namibia coming down from Angola and also from Mozambique (ANC). The loss of both Angola and Mozambique resulted in more pressure being put on the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia as the guerrillas had other countries to hide in and the Communists in the U.N. and their Leftists press organizations could cry "foul!" if they were attacked in those other countries (like we saw with Cambodia and Laos). The Communists also got lots of outside help from the Soviet Union, Cuba and also from Communist China. The Rhodesians and South Africans got sanctions. LOL. A rigged game favoring the Communists and carried out in large part by the United States and Great Britain. The Americans and the British lost thousands of men battling Communists in Asia years before, but wouldn't lift a finger to help them be defeated in south Africa. Makes sense./s
@@hyperion3145 Don't know if you know already, but there are some documentaries on RU-vid about Portuguese military operations in Mozambique and Angola from back then.
@@valentinius62 I know, some have American equipment but we give equipment to virtually everyone who is buying, we still demanded them to leave in the UN and I believe threatened cutting our sales.
"I saw in the tears of my soldiers, in the smiles of satisfaction, in the expressions of their faces, where once were tears of suffering, the extraordinary pleasure of the conquered objective"
@@pauloalheiro2585 Já disparei uma, é diferente, estava a referir em termos de coice, com a g3 a fazer mira encostada á cara e a disparar parecia que estava a levar socos na cara, tinha que a encostar muito bem, mas a cacadeira ainda dá mais coice como é obvio!
@@ruimanuelcandeiasguerrinha9060 Rui Manuel candeias guerrinha. Não. Se estamos a defender o que é nosso. Ex se te tentam roubar alguma coisa tua. O que fazes entregas de bandeja. Devias ser mais patriota.
