Photos The Dhofar insurgency

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I loved that rifle...

...absolute classic pics of Joe Lock and the Mirbat gun pit.

 

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Joe Lock.....a Giant of the SAS in the day, RIP mate

 

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Trooper Roger Cole with a captured 75mm rocket propelled Chinese grenade during SAS Operation Storm in the Gulf State of Oman in 1972

 

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Roger Cole with fellow SAS 'trainers' and local troops in 1976, just before the war finished - pictured with a captured Russian Katyusha rocket

 

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Omani hero Walid Khamis is pictured, who fought alongside the SAS at Mirbat - he was severely wounded but survived

 

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Tak and Laba pictured with the 25-pounder and Omani gunners

 

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Fuzz and Roger are pictured in the mortar pit... during the battle Fuzz held the mortar to his chest because the enemy were too close for it to be fired conventionally

 

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A Bell Augusta helicopter pictured - the first chopper into the Mirbat battle zone was shot seven times, missing the pilot by inches

 

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Hearts and minds: The SAS forged strong links with the local people through both formal and informal contact

 

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Pete Warne is pictured in Roger Cole and Richard Bellfield's book titled SAS Operation Storm: Nine Men Against Four Hundred

 

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Mirbat, 1972: The view of the battlefield from the gun pit, over the sights of a general purpose machine gun

 

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Hero mourned: Tommy Tobin who died from his wounds after the Battle of Mirbat

 

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SAS Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba

 

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Great Oman pics mate!