Peter Petter-Bowyer - Winds of Destruction

PRPolice Reserve

PRIPhoto Recce Interpreter

PRAWPolice Reserve Air Wing

PTCPilot Training Course

PVProtected Village

QFEInternational Civil Aviation code for altimeter setting that will read zero feet at the selected ground position.

QHIQualified Helicopter Instructor

RAMSRadio Activated Marker SSB

RARRhodesian African Rifles

R&RRest and Re-training/Rest and Recuperation.

RatpackRation Pack

RPRocket projectile

RSFRhodesian Security Forces

RSMRegimental Sergeant-Major

RSORange Safety Officer (air weapons ranges)

SAAFSouth African Air Force

SAAFCOLSAAF Staff College

SAANCSouth African African National Congress

SACPSouth African Communist Party

SAMSurface-to-Air Missile

SAPSouth African Police

SBSpecial Branch (of Police)

SCRSilver Cross of Rhodesia

SOPStandard Operating Procedure

SSBSingle Side-band radio

SSQStation Sick Quarters

SSUShort Service Unit (refers to pilot training scheme prior to 1960)

StrelaSAM 7 anti-aircraft missile

STOStation (or Senior) Technical Officer

SWASouth West Africa

SWAPOSouth West Africa Peoples’ Organisation

SWOStation Warrant Officer

TFTerritorial Force

TNTTrinitrotoluene (explosive)

TTLTribal Trust Land

UANCUnited African National Council

UDIUnilateral Declaration of Independence

UXBUn-Exploded Bomb

VHFVery High Frequency (radios)

VNEVelocity Never to Exceed (maximum allowable flight speed)

VRVolunteer Reserve

ZANLAZimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANU’s military wing)

ZANUZimbabwe African National Union

ZAPUZimbabwe African Peoples’ Union

ZIPRAZimbabwe Peoples’ Revolutionary Army (ZAPU’s military wing)

PETER PETTER-BOWYER was born in 1936 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. As a boy during World War II he’d watch the Royal Air Force training aircraft whirling in the colonial skies above—so was born his craving to fly. In 1957 he joined the Royal Rhodesian Air Force as an officer cadet. He became a senior operational pilot during the bush war and was instrumental in designing and producing a range of unique aeronautical weapons systems. He retired prematurely as a group captain in 1980 with the advent of Mugabe’s rule and now lives in England.

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First published by Trafford Publishing, 2003

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Hunter strike using flechette proved very successful. Total of 11 dead found in area of flechette strike. Final tally 28 CTs killed of which 5 accounted for by stops.