CHOPPER DOWN!, the story of a mercenary pilot in Africa

: Alberts (C.)

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352pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Durban, 2016

 

Carl Alberts was a helicopter gunship pilot with the South African Defence Force and served in South West Africa and Angola during the Border War. In 1984 he was awarded the Honoris Crux for his actions at Cuvelai in southern Angola. In 1993 he joined Executive Outcomes and fought in Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. In 2004 he was fined for engaging in foreign mercenary activities.