On 10 June 1980, during a seemingly endless day of bloody fighting, 13
men of the South African Defence Force died and several more were
wounded after 61 Mechanised Infantry Battalion Group attacked a vast
complex of Swapo military bases in Angola.
During Operation Sceptic second lieutenant Paul Louw led his platoon in
four Ratel infantry fighting vehicles to a battleground called
Smokeshell. In the ensuing chaos of that day 12 national servicemen of
his platoon of 44 were killed and he himself was wounded. In a separate
incident during the fighting his company second-in-command was also
slain. One of his troops, 18-year-old HP Ferreira, was shot through the
pelvis by a 14,5 mm anti-aircraft round and also hit by AK-47 bullets.
Louw spent the night drenched in the blood and guts of his men,
hunkered down with a handful of other survivors in a Ratel destroyed by
an RPG 7 rocket, isolated from the rest of the South African attack
force.
Blood Brothers records the dramatic events that took place in Angola
that day, in the words of the survivors of the battle. It investigates
the human cost of war after the last shots have been fired and follows
the veterans as they return to the battleground four decades later in
search of peace.
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