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From: "Colin Mohr" <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 3, Issue 510
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:39:57 +0200
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Johan,
Amazing, I too started in1965 as a Radio technician ( PF though) and spent
much of the latter part of that year at AFS Dunnottar on Harvards.
Colin
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> When I did my military training in the SAAF Gymnasium in 1965 that was my
> rank, except that it was usually written L/WTGK.
>
> I was first trained as a Radar Technician, but changed mustering to
> Fitter-Airframes and Engines, No 4 Squadron (Harvards) when they could not
> place us. The squadron emblem was a (vampire) bat with the motto 'Mors
> Hosti' - Death to the Enemy...
>
> Johann
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>>Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 10:50:02 +0200
>>From: "Colin Mohr" <>
>>Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] SAAF service record: Translation
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>>The LWTGK could be: Lugwerktuigkundige - translated: Air mechanic, a rank
>>equivalent to a Private in the army.
>>You say he applied for his service record in 1976. When did he actually
>>serve in the SAAF.
>>Colin Mohr
>>
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