Operation Griffin

Operation Griffin
	Part of the Rhodesian Bush War (or Second Chimurenga)
Date	16-26 July 1968
Location	Chirundu, Rhodesia
Result	Rhodesian victory
Belligerents
Rhodesia; South Africa	ZIPRA
Commanders and leaders
Maj. Robert Southey; 2Lt. Jerry Strong; Flt. Lt. Petter-Bowyer; Norman Walsh	Unknown
Units involved
Rhodesian Army RAR E Company; ; RLI 3 Commando; ; RRAF; South African Police	unknown
Strength
unknown	28 cadres
Casualties and losses
Rhodesia:; 1 killed; 7 wounded; 1 helicopter damaged; South Africa:; 1 killed; 2 wounded	27 killed; 1 defected

A green helicopter marked with a blue-white-red roundel; the roundel of the Federal Rhodesian Air Force. Against a backdrop of observers and barracks, it is lifting a Rhodesian Army jeep via a cargo net. — An Alouette III helicopter of the Rhodesian Air Force, pictured in 1962. Covering FN MAG fire from such an aircraft proved vital during the first contact of Operation *Griffin* on the 18 July 1968.^[1]

Operation Griffin was a military operation launched by the Rhodesian Security Forces, on 16 July 1968, in response to an incursion into Rhodesia by communist insurgents belonging to the ZIPRA based in Zambia.

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