The Honoris Crux was South Africa's premier gallantry award during the Border War. Scores of accounts of valour, plus particulars of the battles and photographs of the recipients abound. Read of the helicopter pilot who switched his lights on to attract fire away from his friends, then later landed in an enemy camp to rescue his downed comrades; the frogmen who blew the Cuito Bridge then fought the enemy and crocodiles while escaping...