The Aviation Historian — January 2018

THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22

In the early 1970s it was decided to establish an air component to

serve the requirements of the Gabonese Presidential Guard, an

independent unit tasked with the protection of the central west

African nation’s premier. ARNAUD DELALANDE examines the

unit’s activities, including combat in Chad with Douglas Skyraiders

All the

men

the air Squadron of the

gabonese presidential

guard 1972–92

president’s