Operation Snoopy

Operation Snoopy
Part of Rhodesian Bush War
Operation Snoopy is located in Mozambique
Chimoio
Chimoio
Operation Snoopy (Mozambique)
Date20 September 1978
Location
Result

Rhodesian victory

  • Twenty-five guerrilla camps attacked and destroyed.
Belligerents
 Rhodesia ZANLA
FRELIMO
Commanders and leaders
Rhodesia Ian Smith Robert Mugabe
Mozambique Unknown
Units involved

Rhodesian Army

RhAF
unknown
Strength
unknown ZANLA:
unknown
 Mozambique:
9 T-54/55 tanks
4 BTR-152 APCs
Casualties and losses
2 killed :
Several hundred killed
Mozambique:
unknown
3 APCs destroyed

Operation Snoopy was an operation launched by Rhodesia in response to Air Rhodesia Flight 825 being shot down by a communist backed insurgent group, the ZIPRA. The operation took place in Mozambique, where many of the ZANLA's camps were located, particularly in the area in and around Chimoio.[1]

  1. ^ Moorcraft & McLaughlin 2008, pp. 140–143