The Radfan Campaign was a series of British military actions during the Aden Emergency in January–May 1964. It took place in the mountainous Radfan region...
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Aden Emergency (redirect from Radfan campaign)
romanized: Thawra 14 ʾUktūbar, lit. '14th October Revolution') or as the Radfan Uprising, was an armed rebellion by the National Liberation Front (NLF)...
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General Service Medal (1962) (category British campaign medals)
July 1964 in the campaign in the Radfan Mountains, mounted with South Arabia Federation troops against the Egyptian/Yemeni backed Radfan tribesmen. They...
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as close air support to carry out strikes on rebel positions. The Radfan Campaign (Operation Nutcracker) in early 1964 was successful in suppressing...
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Squadron RAF and No. 8 Squadron RAF were used extensively during the Radfan campaign against insurgents attempting to overthrow the Federation of South...
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Strategic Reserve, it was deployed back to Aden in response to the Radfan Campaign in what had become the Federation of South Arabia. Within a year of...
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included the Malayan emergency, the Korean War, the Suez crisis, and the Radfan campaign.[citation needed] Bristol Brigand de Havilland Hornet de Havilland...
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‘North-West Frontier’ style gunnery actions in the rugged Radfan Mountains during the Radfan Campaign. In 1967, B Battery moved to Colchester for three years...
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Vixens carried out air strikes against rebelling tribesmen in the Radfan Campaign, while later in the year the squadron flew air defence and surface...
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1964. Between April and May 1964, the squadron participated in the Radfan Campaign known as Operation Nutcracker, providing close air support (CAS) for...
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