South African

[Bootie]

Allied troops relaxing with some of the local beauties on a "soldier's beach" in Cape Town.

 

[Bootie]

Shermans of the Pretoria Regiment, 6th SA Armoured Division, Italy 1944/45

 

[Bootie]

South Africans under bombing attack, 60,000 S.Africans served in the Desert

 

[Bootie]

S.Africans and British, Cassino May 43

 

[Bootie]

"Field Marshal J C Smuts (S.A. Prime Minister), Maj-Gen WH Evered Poole (GOC 6th SA Armoured Division) and Lt-Gen Sir Pierre van Ryneveld (S.A. Chief of Staff), in Italy, 24 June 1944"

 

[Rico]

South African Infantry position in the desert

 

[Rico]

South African Air Force Officer, North Africa

 

[Rico]

SAAF Spitfire, Italy 1944.

 

[Rico]

Units of 1st S.A. Infantry Brigade Group on parade at Gilgil on the occasion when the Governor of Kenya delivered a special message from the King.

 

[Louis]

This South African sapper is carrying a load of death (german anti-tank mines)

 

[Louis]

Egypt, 1940.

 

[Louis]

Cleaning broken images.

 

[Louis]

Cape Town Highlanders members.

 

[Louis]

S. African soldiers inspecting a captured Panzer IV, Nov. 1941.

 

[Gunner]

And what's that below the barrel? It looks like a cannon rest. And is that attached to the hull or goes inside the turret?
I've never seen that before or if I have it ddin't register.
Thanks Louis.

 

[Louis]

South African soldier on guard at an Allied air training base, 1943.

 

[Louis]

On patrol in North Africa.

 

[mTk]

Well, if your job is to "guard" biplanes I guess a spear is good enough.

 

[Rico]

6th South African Armoured Division - very basic tank gunnery training in Egypt, Sept 1943, using dismounted Crusader and Lee turrets fitted with Lee Enfield rifles.
The division was newly formed and training for Italian campaign which they joined in early 1944 -- using whatever was to hand until their consignment of Shermans arrived.

 

[Louis]

Pilots and ground crew of #3 Sq., South African Air Force, chalk up their 101st enemy aircraft destroyed on the fuselage of a captured Italian CR 42 fighter. 1941