Operation Excess (Rhodesia)

Operation Excess
Part of the Rhodesian Bush War (or Second Chimurenga)
Date27 July-12 August 1968
Location
Result Rhodesian victory
Belligerents
 Rhodesia ZIPRA
Commanders and leaders
Rhodesia Lt. Fanie Coetzee
Flt. Lt. Petter-Bowyer
Unknown
Units involved

Rhodesian Army

  • RLI
    • 2 Commando
    • 3 Commando
  • RAR
    • E Company

BSAP
RRAF

  • No.7 Squadron
unknown
Strength
At least 150 to 200 Troops
4 Alouette III (G-Cars)
1 DC-3C Dakota (Paradak)
30+
Casualties and losses
1 wounded 15 killed
8 captured
7 missing
Total:
30

Operation Excess was a military operation launched by the Rhodesian Security Forces, on 27 July 1968, in response to an incursion of ZIPRA terrorists in Mashonaland West province.[1]

  1. ^ Petter-Bowyer 2005, pp. 140–143