Just released - A new book on the personal history of the SAAF!
Tumult in the CloudsStories from the South African Air Force, 1920 - 2010By Dean Wingrin
The South African Air Force (SAAF), formed on 1 February 1920, is the second oldest air force in the Commonwealth. The air arm played a major role in securing victory for the Allies during the Second World War, in the 1948/49 Berlin Airlift, and in Korea in the 1950s. The SAAF assisted Rhodesia in the 1960s and ’70s, made a major contribution to the ‘Border’ or ‘Bush’ war in South West Africa and Angola, participated in the transition to a new democracy in South Africa and continuously supports South African peace missions in Africa. It has also assisted in countless relief and rescue missions in southern Africa throughout this entire period.
However, the SAAF is not just about aircraft and ordnance; it is made up of people and it is in this compilation that these people, airmen and ground crew alike, find their voice. These are their stories, all told in the first person by the actual participants as unvarnished, unabbreviated and intensely immediate and personal recollections.
Through their stories of heroism, duty, adventure and tragedy, the reader will follow the history of the SAAF prior to 1939 to the present day
To complement the stories, the final chapter includes a collection of squadron pub songs from the Second World War, Korea and the Border War.
Available from
The Airforce Shop and other fine book stores.
(Apologies to any who's stories were left out, but the publishers took a sharp scalpel towards the end as time ran out for final proofing).
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