Name:Aldeia de Barragem
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Date: 22 June 2008
Historic fact:
Winds of Destruction: The Autobiography of a Rhodesian Combat Pilot by P.J.H. Petter-Bowyer - 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 392 pages
SAS made up the largest component of the ground force and were flown to the huge Aldeia da Barragem target just 150 kilometres northwest of Maputo.
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The Rhodesians damaged the Aldeia De Barragem dam, which controls the irrigation system for the Limpopo agro-industrial com- plex, killed many civilians...
http://researchchannel.co.za/searchquick.php?searchOrderBy=sr_rel&searchString=rail
operation Uric which had as its aim the completedestruction/disruption of the Frelimo/Zanla lines of communication as far back as the economicallyimportant Aldeia De Barragem (Lit. village of the dam) 93 miles N.W. of Maputo and 200 miles fromRhodesia. At Barragem the road and rail bridges over the dam, along with its vital irrigation canalfeeding a major agricultural complex which produced 80% of Mozambique's cash crop, were to bedemolished along with 4 lesser bridges. Air strikes would be made on Barragem, Mapai and Maxaila inan effort to so demoralise the occupants that they would abandon their bases because with their road, railand bridge links destroyed behind them and with communications, supplies and water cut off, theenemy, especially at Mapai, would be in a very vulnerable position.
From: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:ClGoRYztFoIJ:www.memoriesofrhodesia.com/media/documents/Op-Uric.pdf+Aldeia+de+Barragem&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=za
www.memoriesofrhodesia.com/media/documents/Op-Uric.pdf
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2 comments:
Aldeia da Barragem and chinhacanine is the same distance from Maputo because accross the bridge from aldeia da barragem is chinhacanine.the bridge was bombed in 1979.the rockets just missed me in 15 minutes when i was on my way to chinhacanine from aldeia da barragem where i was schooling.
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Thanks for the comment. It is notes like this that gives a place character and a sense of history. It will be nice if you could give even more background history.
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