Operation Mars (Portugal)

Operation Mars
	Part of Mozambique
Result	Portuguese victory

Belligerents

Portugal

FRELIMOCommanders and leaders

Unknown

UnknownUnits involved

Forças Armadas

UnknownStrength 19 commandos
1 Do-27 recon plane
1 T-6 trainer 26 guerrillasCasualties and losses 1 killed 22 killed

Operation Mars was a military operation in the

Niassa, carried out in April 1968, by the 4th Company of Commandos.^[1]

This operation originates in an earlier one, Operation Corvo III, in which information was obtained on the location of that base, and on a meeting that would take place there with Frelimo military leaders in Niassa. In total secrecy, Operation Mars was organised whose aim was to surprise these leaders.

In all, the force of attack was constituted by three groups of commandos of 19 men and a group of militias with 26 men. These men followed by air to

Vila Cabral, to bombard the base. After conquering the objective, and of seizing diverse material of war, the commandos returned to the base, on 10 April. In terms of victims of the operation, 22 guerrillas were killed; on the Portuguese side one soldier was killed, an officer killed by a mine

.

References

^ Colonial War 1961-1974

External links

Colonial War 1961-1974

[1] Colonial War 1961-1974

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