Island at War PMC 455 men serving on 78

455 men serving on 78 ships — mostly trawlers and whalers taken up from trade

with the last major operation being two months border duty in mid-1988 during Operation Prone

RRP R575 Special Price: R395

3 Electronic Workshop

Corps and Unit Songs

Island at War PMC 455 men serving on 78Concentrating on Robben Island but written against a background covering all the coastal gun batteries on the South African coastline, this book tells of the Coast Gunners themselves, the intrepid women who operated the range finding and plotting instruments, the Women's Auxiliary Naval Service (SWANS) who watched over the anti submarine fixed defences, the men of the Seaward Defence Forces who manned the degaussing depot, and the largely untold story