V2nd - Chapter 9 - another crackpot theory

[Robin Landseadel]

Great find, very much on point.

"V." is V-1, Gravity's Rainbow is  . . . .

On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:05 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Aircraft in Africa & Abraham Morris:
> Aircraft  as a new weapon system, were applied and tested by a number
> of Western states during the inter-war period. Aircraft proved the
> supreme weapon system in dealing with massed "feudal" armies. Our
> first case study is close to home. What become known as the
> Bondelswart Uprising occurred a brief three years after the end of the
> First World War; and immediately showed the value of a tactical air
> force to a still skeptical public.
>
> The Bondelswart tribe, located in modern Namibia, protested against  
> a South
> African government decision not to concede certain land claims. A  
> force was raised
> in May 1922, when the captain of the tribe refused to deliver a  
> number of his
> followers who were allegedly guilty of misdemeanor and theft. The  
> force initially
> comprised two field guns and one hundred mounted troops. This force  
> surrounded
> and bombarded Haib, the Bondelswart stronghold, on 29 May. On 30 May  
> the
> settlement surrendered after their leader, Abraham Morris, together  
> with
> approximately fifty followers had escaped through the cordon. Morris  
> hoped to join
> Nicolaas Christiaan and his men, and make a stand in their ancient
> stronghold - the Fish River Canyon. In an attempt to prevent the  
> insurrection from
> spreading to the Richtersveld, an airstrip was prepared near  
> Steinkopf and two aircraft
> dispatched to the area from Pretoria. On 2 June, one of these  
> aircraft spotted smoke
> in a saucer in the mountains; and the Bondelswart were bombed and  
> machine-gunned from the
> air. Some 20 were killed and more wounded: the survivors learned to  
> hide by day
> and move at night. They ate their last donkey on 4 June and in a  
> skirmish with
> ground troops on the same day, Morris was killed. What remained of  
> his followers
> surrendered on 7 June. Over the following weeks, the two aircraft made
> intimidation flights over all the reserves around Keetmanshoop.