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.
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@ldv1452 Жыл бұрын
A parte final leva lagrimas aos olhos! Grande orgulho de ser Portugues! Um muito obrigado a todos aqueles que prestaram servicos pela Patria!
@dial87023 жыл бұрын
Grandes imagens dos nossos soldados. Grandes maquinas! Portugal!
@terrywarner86574 жыл бұрын
Bolt action rifles, box magazine Madsen mgs, French armoured cars, Jeeps, and early Unimogs. What a way to fight a war!
@wistonlawsons44433 жыл бұрын
And what a logistocal nightmare to maintain everyone supplied specially when the UN does you an embargo.
@1vespa3 жыл бұрын
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.
@wistonlawsons44433 жыл бұрын
@@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
@1vespa3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@wistonlawsons44433 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@mikecavallaro4664 жыл бұрын
Nice combat footage. Thank you for preserving important military history.
@Tiago-sf3wg4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much
@mikecavallaro4664 жыл бұрын
@@Tiago-sf3wg I would love to see more.
@javimurillo46182 жыл бұрын
viva Portugal from Mexico
@pedrocsantos83 жыл бұрын
Viva Portugal!! O final do video é fantástico.
@nickschmitz8414 жыл бұрын
Wow, you see multiple shots of the 1937 contract Mauser being used, crazy!
@mikecavallaro4664 жыл бұрын
Plus the model 1896 Madsen MG.
@nickschmitz8414 жыл бұрын
@@mikecavallaro466 I was wondering what that was, good catch. I think I even caught a short glimpse of a Walther P38 but not sure.
@Tiago-sf3wg4 жыл бұрын
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
@Tiago-sf3wg4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@nickschmitz8414 жыл бұрын
@@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 ?
@JoseCarlos-hk8zd3 жыл бұрын
Já fomos um povo com tomates, mas agora, com a esquerda a mandar, não passamos de pedintes. Também andei nesta guerra (1969/1972).
@jorgemesquita27973 жыл бұрын
Tambem eu andei 1970 a 1972 B.12 Carmona Uige
@Bruno8ball3 жыл бұрын
O meu pai aparece no vídeo anterior ao 2.43 minutos mas diz k está guerra não valeu para nada
@antoniolazarodasilva21443 жыл бұрын
Tem toda a razão, também lá andei Bateria Artª 1441 (1965-1967)
@fernandocardeira91982 жыл бұрын
Assim fala um bom português! Abraço e obrigado
@ezequiel717 Жыл бұрын
Que esquerda é que manda em Portugal exatamente ? Nunca tivemos um Partido de esquerda a mandar sem ser no 25 de abril meu senhor.
@valentinius623 жыл бұрын
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
@hyperion31453 жыл бұрын
Odd how the US and Britain supported France in Vietnam but demanded Portugal out of Africa.
@valentinius623 жыл бұрын
@@hyperion3145 Don't know if you know already, but there are some documentaries on KZfaq about Portuguese military operations in Mozambique and Angola from back then.
@hyperion31453 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@gregoryemmanuel91683 жыл бұрын
You blather. Of course they fell, they deserved to fall and it was their time.
@Samuel0707932 жыл бұрын
It's the Jesuits. Cold War was a Jesuit hoax. They wanted Communism to win.
@m000Theevilcow3 жыл бұрын
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.
@tugalord2 жыл бұрын
"May god follow us"
@McPruden2 жыл бұрын
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.
@Chapadaria3 жыл бұрын
7:18 edição perfeita!
@arturribeiro87053 жыл бұрын
Obrigado pessoal
@rhodie. Жыл бұрын
That's amazing footage.
@ulpiotraiano33742 жыл бұрын
I always wander about the Portuguese helmet , was it Portuguese made ?
@BARTa.k.aECCENTRICVISIONARY2 жыл бұрын
nice video bro!
@javimurillo46182 жыл бұрын
VIVA PORTUGAL
@-jdb_89_mgr_pt- Жыл бұрын
5:14 Deus nos acompanhe...😎😎✌✌👍👍❤❤
@antonioafonso7543 Жыл бұрын
Imagens muito antigas.
@rogeriobazoni3003 ай бұрын
Angola Moçambique foi o Vietnã português
@Miguel_Proud_Binary3 жыл бұрын
Vietnam Tuga! As G3 foram usadas nesta guerra? Ao disparar a G3 na tropa parecia que estava a disparar uma caçadeira!
@antoniolazarodasilva21443 жыл бұрын
G3 e FNs
@pauloalheiro25853 жыл бұрын
Já alguma vez disparou uma caçadeira?? É que dá a impressão que não…
@Miguel_Proud_Binary3 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@carlosmiranda58423 жыл бұрын
@@Miguel_Proud_Binary é uma grande arma em tudo principalmente em precisão falo por experiência própria santa Margarida.
@Miguel_Proud_Binary3 жыл бұрын
@@carlosmiranda5842 Eu estive em Estremoz e posteriormente Elvas, belos tempos que já não voltam mais, abraço.
@LusoPatriot779 ай бұрын
Operação viriato?
@-jdb_89_mgr_pt-Ай бұрын
Sim... o discurso no final do comandante Armando Maçanita foi na chegada a Nambuangongo...
@LusoPatriot77Ай бұрын
@@-jdb_89_mgr_pt- Muito obrigado
@kamilksiazek80192 жыл бұрын
9:45 what is he saying?
@pedrogomes33272 жыл бұрын
I Saw in the face of my soldiers the expression of pride by the the accomplished objective
@pedrogomes33272 жыл бұрын
Thats the main message but i can give you a full translation
@EuAbreuPortugal2 жыл бұрын
"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"
@barbadolid517010 ай бұрын
I'd rather be listening to xuntos
@tv_agenda2 жыл бұрын
still glorifying colonial wars, i see
@BARTa.k.aECCENTRICVISIONARY2 жыл бұрын
you know it brother! we love t
@joeblow9657 Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah because those countries aren't terribly run dictatorships now
@arenabr12833 жыл бұрын
Idiot colonial war...kkkkkkk
@dontfuckwithharambe18643 жыл бұрын
Já há net na favela!?? Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
@carlosmiranda58423 жыл бұрын
Porque. Se. Estávamos. A. Defender. O. Que. Era. Nosso. É. Digo. Mais. Se. Todas. As. Colónias. Que. Já. Pertençaram. A. Portugal. Se. Hoje. Estivessem. Sob. Dominio.portugues.nao.tenho.a.menor.duvida.que.estariam.muito.melhor.
@lonzolotto3 жыл бұрын
@@carlosmiranda5842 Com certeza. Não dá ouvidos pra esse brazuca folgado.
@ruimanuelcandeiasguerrinha90603 жыл бұрын
Qualquer que seja a guerra... é idiota!!!
@carlosmiranda58423 жыл бұрын
@@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.