Operation Vanity

Operation Vanity
Part of the Rhodesian Bush War
Location
Angola

Luso
Operation Vanity (Angola)
Planned by Rhodesia
Target ZIPRA
Date25–26 February 1979
OutcomeRhodesian Bombing Success
Casualties
    • 160 ZIPRA killed
  • 530 Wounded

Operation Vanity was a Rhodesian military operation in Angola with clandestine assistance from the South African Air Force (SAAF) during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Rhodesian Air Force planned a retaliatory raid against a ZIPRA camp in Angola after a second Air Rhodesia Viscount was shot down on 12 February 1979.: 157 

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