RAF Shackleons – Blockading Rhodesia

Upholding the trade embargo imposed against Southern Rhodesia after it declared independence was a largely pointless task for the British armed forces involved — but enjoyable nevertheless, not least for the RAF Shackleton crews that helped support the Royal Navy’s efforts WORDS: STEVE BOND Bomb bay doors open, an RAF Shackleton MR2 is about to make a mail drop to a Royal Navy vessel engaged in the Beira Patrol during July 1970. JOHN LANE In 1965 Ian Smith, the Prime