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For everyone following my retelling of the build-up to the Falklands invasion, please remember I have two books on the subject: The First Casualty and its companion Pictorial History, both available on Amazon 😊
amazon.co.uk/s?k=ricky+d+phi…
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April 2nd 1982: Admiral Sir Henry Leach goes to Parliament in full dress, straight from a function and tells Margaret Thatcher that she absolutely must respond to the Argentine invasion... She asks why....
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Saw this... Two iconic aircraft built only thirty years apart. The weird bit is that only one of these two is still flying today 🙄
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April 19th 1982: "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK".
Newsweek creates the single greatest headline literally EVER.
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May 28th 1982: The Argentine Air Force orders an attack against the British Hospital Ship SS Uganda. Argentine pilot, Squadron Leader Mario Jorge Caffaratti, defies two direct orders to carry out the mission and finally tells his superiors: "Why don't you go to hell?"
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A classic moment... I was contacted on Facebook by an Argentine guy claiming he was going to expose me as a Nazi and that he had proof... Apparently this photo of me in 2015 with the two French Imperial Eagles captured at Waterloo in 1815 is his "proof" that I am a Nazi! 🤣🤣🤣
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May 28th 1982: The Argentine Air Force orders an attack against the British Hospital Ship SS Uganda. Argentine pilot, Squadron Leader Mario Jorge Caffaratti, defies two direct orders to carry out the mission and finally tells his superiors:
"Why don't you go to hell?"
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Sad news, upon hearing of the passing yesterday of Commander Nigel "Sharkey" Ward, a true hero of the Falklands War... Rest in Power, Sir.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharke…
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Leach tells her: "Because if we do not, or if we pussyfoot in our actions and do not achieve complete success, in a few months from now we will be living in a different country, in which Britain's word in the world counts for nothing."
And so the die is cast.
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June 1st 1982: The "Little men from Nepal" arrive in the Falklands. Argentina is terrified of the legendary Gurkhas and the junta begin a propaganda war which backfires, frightening their own men witless. They even complained to the UN that Gurkhas should not be allowed to fight.
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July 21st 1982: HMS Hermes returns to Portsmouth from the Falklands war, and the crowd goes wild... What a sight!! Bloody marvellous!!
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May 29th 1982: The Union Flag is hoisted over Goose Green. It is a tiny place in real terms but the second largest settlement after Staley itself. The battle has been long, hard and costly, but the freedom of the local people has been worth it...
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And so we end on June 14th 1982, and thousands of you from around the world have followed and joined in. It has been incredible & exhausting, and there's more to go, but for now we finish in remembrance of the last ten weeks as we always do: hit the link.
piped.video/C5etpMmcWF0?si=u4po…
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April 25th 1982: Argentine submarine ARA Santa Fe leaves Grytviken, South Georgia, at 5am, heading for the open sea, but is surfaced to avoid icebergs and rocks. Coming through Cumberland Bay, she is detected, and British ships prepare to take her out...
(Long thread continues)
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June 1st 1982: The "Little men from Nepal" arrive in the Falklands, and the second they land, the chatter is "Where de Argies? Where de Argies?" as one man runs off to fight the war all on his own and has to be found many miles away and recalled....
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Canada shames her neighbours:
Canada announces it is sending $5 billion of frozen Russian funds and a number of new weapons systems to Ukraine, including:
- 25 LAVIII infantry fighting vehicles
- Artillery shells
- F-16 flight simulators
And it doesn't want a dime back.
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June 14th 1982: Here, the Paras recreate the famous Iwo Jima photo in Stanley...
The Falklands are under the British flag once more.
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April 30th 1982: Eleven Victor tankers & two Vulcan bombers take off from Ascension to launch the longest bombing raid in history, codenamed Operation Black Buck. The talking is done, and tomorrow, Argentina will see Great Britain at war...
God speed, boys.....
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April 19th 1982: "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK".
Newsweek creates the single greatest headline literally EVER.
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May 28th 1982: The Argentine Air Force orders an attack against the British Hospital Ship SS Uganda. Argentine pilot, Squadron Leader Mario Jorge Caffaratti, defies two direct orders to carry out the mission and finally tells his superiors: "Why don't you go to hell!?"
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June 12th 1982: Glamorgan crewmember Taff Whitton swims the length of the flooded port passageway, wholly underwater, unscrewing the AFFF foam tube caps and allowing the water to flow into the machinery room bilge... Glamorgan stops listing just as 'abandon ship' is considered...
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June 12th 1982: Glamorgan crewmember Taff Whitton swims the length of the flooded port passageway, wholly underwater, unscrewing the AFFF foam tube caps and allowing the water to flow into the machinery room bilge. Glamorgan stops listing just as 'abandon ship' is considered.
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May 2nd 1982: Captain Hector Bonzo orders abandon ship, and finds himself impressed at how well his crew carry it out, calmly and without panic. Men swim to the life rafts, although one is sunk by a falling hoist, and several are torn apart on the jagged hull...
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People often seem to forget that the Falklands wasn't a "white man's war" and that the UK fought with a multiracial force. Here's some images of black British Paras in the war, and curiously, at Goose Green, many Argentines somehow believed they were facing African mercenaries!!
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May 15th 1982: By morning, the Argentine defenders of Pebble Island emerge to find all eleven aircraft broken and burned out, and the SAS gone. Fuel and ammunition dumps burn where NGS has targeted them. Not a single aircraft is left intact.
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October 29th 1946: Surgeon-Captain Rick Jolly OBE, the only man to be decorated by both sides in the Falklands War was born in Hong Kong. Jolly treated over 600 wounded British & Argentine men. The Queen authorised Jolly to wear his Argentine medal alongside his British medals.
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April 30th 1982: Eleven Victor tankers & two Vulcan bombers take off from Ascension to launch the longest bombing raid in history, codenamed Operation Black Buck. The talking is done, and tomorrow, Argentina will see Great Britain at war...
God speed, boys.....
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April 3rd 1982: The Royal Marines quickly build defences of home made mines on the stony beach and a huge explosive under the jetty, built by Les Daniels, who then sets up his camera for a delayed shoot and joins the others for their famous photo below, just before the battle.
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April 25th 1982: The White Ensign and Union Jack are run up as the Argentine flag is taken down. Major Guy Sheridan sends a now famous message to London: "Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia. God save the Queen."
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If ever the House of Lords showed its relevance, this rejection of the treacherous Chagos deal is it. It should be a clear case of self determination and no, the UK isn't going to pay Mauritius for the privilege.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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June 14th 1982: Suddenly it's all over: the white flag is flying and thousands of Argentine troops surrender. Some hurl their weapons to the floor, some cry, some just stare blankly, absolutely exhausted, as the Paras and Royal Marines enter Stanley...
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April 2nd 1982: A British man comes into KEMH with a mangled hand, and nurse Blackley asks if he's one of our boys. He replies "No, I'm SBS and can't be found here" and is hidden. His camouflaged uniform is put in the incinerator and he is put down as a farming accident...
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April 4th 1982: Falklands lighthouse keeper and ham radio enthusiast Reg Silvey establishes radio contact with another radio ham, Bob North, in Yorkshire, and tells him to contact the Ministry of Defence and pass on vital information...
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Twenty two years ago today I lost my Mum to the vile illness known as cancer. She was 45... I'm now 46. It feels odd. I only went to call her yesterday and do most days: it never quite sinks in. But she taught me integrity, compassion and above all, how to dream big ❤️
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June 14th 1982: The Paras recreating the famous Iwo Jima photo in Stanley...
The Falklands are under the British flag once more.
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May 16th 1982: At 15:00 Harriers once again swoop in low from the sea and hammer targets around Stanley. Residents are out in the sun, cheering with cups of tea, acting as if they are impervious to the bombing, as Argentine soldiers run or hide...
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April 2nd 1982: Posted at all railway and tube stations and broadcast on the radio came notices for troops to return to barracks immediately... this was the 1982 version of "going viral".
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August 7th 1982: Welsh Guardsman Simon Weston - recovering from 46% burns - is released from hospital in order to go home and celebrate his 21st birthday for the following day... here is a story of his experience and homecoming.
lordashcroft.com/2021/08/ter…
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June 6th 1982: Ten Peruvian Mirage III fighters, painted in Argentine livery, take off from La Joya Air Force Base in Peru and fly 1500 miles at 33,000 feet, in radio silence, to Jujuy in Argentina to replace lost aircraft...
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And so we end on June 14th 1982 and Liberation Day in the #Falklands and thousands of you from around the world have followed and joined in. It has been incredible & exhausting, and there's more to go, but for now we finish as we always do: hit the link.
piped.video/0CRHUcp9eIk
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May 20th 1982: New Zealand's PM Robert Muldoon offers to send Leander Class Frigate HMNZS Canterbury to the Falklands to join the task force. London politely declines, but suggest that New Zealand might help free up the RN Frigate Squadron in the Persian Gulf instead... (cont's)
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April 2nd 1982: The Royal Marines of Naval Party 8901 are gathered under guard in the paddocks outside Government House. Just to right of centre, Geordie Gill flips the bird to the cameraman, telling him just what he thinks of him!
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April 2nd 1982: Admiral Sir Henry Leach goes to Parliament in full dress, straight from a function and tells Margaret Thatcher that she absolutely must respond to the Argentine invasion... She asks why....
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April 8th 2013 we lost Britain's greatest Prime Minister and my own MP. A wonderful lady whom I had the pleasure to meet, and who gave me some very solid advice. Gone 10 years today 😢
(Oh and if anyone has anything bad to say, please scroll past, don't say it.)
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June 1st 1982: The "Little men from Nepal" arrive in the Falklands. Argentina is terrified of the legendary Gurkhas and the junta begin a propaganda war which backfires, frightening their own men witless. They even complained to the UN that Gurkhas should not be allowed to fight.
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April 2nd 1982: Groups of Royal Marines are now battling Argentine assailants in Stanley itself, who pop up from empty houses and gardens. Here is the famous scene from the battle: "Would you like a cup of tea, boys?" - "Get down, you silly b*tch, there's an invasion on!"
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April 21st 1982: As diplomats squabble and letters are exchanged, the SAS & SBS land on South Georgia to begin Operation Paraquet. Here they are above Leith, getting ready to move out... Possibly the best photo of the #Falklands war.
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June 10th 1982: At Many Branch Point near Port Howard, West Falkland, an SAS forward observation post held by Captain Gavin Hamilton & Corporal Roy Fonseka is discovered by four 601 Commandos. Fonseka is caught unawares and challenged. He drops down and opens fire...
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April 3rd 1982: The Royal Marines quickly build defences of home made mines on the stony beach and a huge explosive under the jetty, built by Les Daniels, who then sets up his camera for a delayed shoot and joins the others for their famous photo below, just before the battle...
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April 30th 1982: HMS Conqueror trails the Argentine tanker Puerto Rosales and watches her refuelling the Belgrano. It is obvious she is about to go into action. This shot is taken from the tanker. Conqueror is right underneath Belgrano, so as not to be detected...
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Just want to say a very happy birthday to @SimonWestonCBE a great man who does so much for the veterans community to this day.
August 7th 1982: Welsh Guardsman Simon Weston - recovering from 46% burns - is released from hospital in order to go home and celebrate his 21st birthday for the following day... here is a story of his experience and homecoming.
lordashcroft.com/2021/08/ter…
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May 4th 1982: As HMS Sheffield is abandoned and the fire spreads towards the Sea Dart ammunition. The remaining crew gather on the foredeck singing "Always look on the bright side of life".
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May 23rd 1982: At 13:50 Argentine air attacks begin. The pilots streak in low, hugging the sea and providing no silhouette, with the bluffs behind them. British ships and crews, and those on land, open up with everything...
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April 21st 1982: Falklands police chief, Terry Peck, slips out of Stanley on a motorbike, evading arrest by Major Dowling. He will spend the next few weeks organising resistance & sabotage before joining up with 3 Para (pictured). His biography is below:
falklandsbiographies.org/bio…
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2) Captain Bonzo stands on the broken bow, determined to go down with his ship, but finds he is not alone, and Petty Officer Ramon Barrionuevo convinces him to swim to a raft... This is them, the last men on board the Belgrano.
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May 15th 1982: An RAF Nimrod of 201 Sqn makes the longest reconnaissance flight in history, 8,300 miles from Ascension, sweeping down the Argentine coast, looking at their warships, before returning 19 hours later. They will break their own world record very soon.
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May 26th 1982: Colonel H Jones of 2 Para turns on his radio to hear the BBC World Service announcing his "surprise attack" towards Goose Green thus blowing the whole thing. Swearing profusely, he carries on into the night....
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March 17th 1982: Royal Navy ships depart the UK under Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward for the annual Exercise Springtrain, which in all, will contain 18 British warships and RFAs including County Class Destroyers HMS Antrim (Flagship) and Glamorgan...
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May 1st 1982: Vulcan XM607 "Black Buck 1" arrives back at Ascension via multiple refuellings, after sixteen hours in the air... The longest bombing run in history has been completed, and history has been made...
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June 14th 1982: The Royal Marines yomp the last few miles towards Stanley. Readers of "The First Casualty" will know the first three men: L-R Marc Branch, Murdo Macleod and Steve Johnson from Section 3 NP8901. Marc is actually marching in his sleep in this photo....
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May 11th 1982: Five Infantry Brigade are getting ready to depart tomorrow, and the press are all waiting for pictures of the Gurkhas. This particular image, the famous "grinding wheel photo" caused an incredible stir, which is an interesting dit related in the thread below:
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May 22nd 1982: HMS Ardent finally sinks, carrying 22 crew with her. She still has at least two UXB's lodged in her. Used to decoy Argentine pilots into attacking her and not the landing ships, she has done her job, but at terrible cost... Goodbye, old girl.
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June 2nd 1982: Brigadier Tony Wilson, Commander of 5 Infantry Brigade, joins 2 Para at Goose Green. He is at once unpopular. Suggesting that the battalion should march the 40 miles to Fitzroy, Major John Crosland of B Company replies:
"Brigadier, are you fucking pissed?"
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Actually, that is the Falkland Islands, which are a British territory and have been British for over two centuries before Argentina ever existed.
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April 18th 1982: Argentine Aircraft Carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo returns to port with engine trouble. The British are particularly worried about her and her potential for launching Super Etendard fighters, to the point where we actually hatched a crazy plan to steal her!!
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July 20th 1982: HMS Hermes sails towards the Isle of Wight and HMS Illustrious, not quite ready for sea and still working up, sails over to meet her... this is a cracking shot, with another great one in the thread below:
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June 24th 1982: The first extended range Hercules landing occurs at Stanley. There are six such converted C-130s, each fitted with additional 825-gallon fuel tanks from old Andover and Argosy transport aircraft, to increase their range...
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May 12th 1982: Four Argentine Skyhawk jets swoop in towards HMS Glasgow & Brilliant, just as Sea Harrier CAP changes over, leaving them with no air cover. They attack too low for Glasgow's Sea Dart, but Brilliant's Sea Wolf locks on and for the first time in combat, it fires....
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June 14th 1982: Suddenly it's all over: the white flag is flying and thousands of Argentine troops surrender. Some hurl their weapons to the floor, some cry, some just stare blankly, absolutely exhausted, as the Paras and Royal Marines enter Stanley...
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May 15th 1982: An RAF Nimrod of 201 Squadron makes the longest reconnaissance flight in history: 8,300 miles from Ascension, sweeping down the Argentine coast, looking at their warships, before returning 19 hours later. They will break their own world record very soon.
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April 19th 1982: "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK".
Newsweek creates the single greatest headline literally EVER.
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May 1st 1982: All Sea Harriers return safely. On board HMS Hermes, British TV correspondent Brian Hanrahan is told he can't release how many aircraft took part in the raid. He gets around it with the immortal phrase, "I counted them all out, and I counted them all back in again."
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June 4th 1982: A quiet day in the Falklands as British forces move towards the mountains, carrying everything on their backs. This is one of the most famous photo of that time, showing the boys of 45 Commando: the world was to learn a new word - Yomp - "Your Own Marching Pace."
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May 27th 1982: At 20.00 Zulu, Colonel H Jones of 2 Para turns on his radio to hear the BBC World Service announcing his "surprise attack" towards Goose Green thus blowing the whole thing. Swearing profusely, he carries on into the night....
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Classic... The US have accepted their own designs are nowhere near the new UK Tempest and are now trying to come in on it with the EU and Japan... Both of whom their President has just really pissed off. As Dad would say, you never know who you'll need...
eurasiantimes.com/us-eyes-pa…
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May 27th 1982: At 20.00 Zulu, Colonel H Jones of 2 Para turns on his radio to hear the BBC World Service announcing his "surprise attack" towards Goose Green thus blowing the whole thing. Swearing profusely, he carries on into the night....
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May 22nd 1982: HMS Ardent finally rolls over and sinks, carrying 22 crew with her. She still has at least two UXB's lodged in her. Used to decoy Argentine pilots into attacking her and not the landing ships, she has done her job, but at terrible cost... Goodbye, old girl.
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May 25th 1982: The last of HMS Coventry, rolled completely over with her propellers visible and life rafts around her. Waiting for pickup, the crew now gave a stirring rendition of that great British anthem, "Always look on the bright side of life."
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May 26th 1982: At 03.50 Glamorgan fires one of her massive Sea Slug missiles towards Stanley Airport. Useless against aircraft, it is worked out that they are excellent cruise missiles, with a 200lb warhead strapped to 2.5 tons of supersonic missile with a 30 mile range... (cont)
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May 1st 1982: Twelve Sea Harriers from HMS Hermes prepare to take off to strike Argentine targets; nine to Stanley and three to Goose Green, most with 1,000lb bombs set to explode mid-air, on impact and one after an hour, to keep them guessing, plus some with cluster bombs.
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July 9th 1982: British Harrier GR3 pilot, Flight Lieutenant Jeff Glover, who was shot down by Blowpipe missile over Port Howard on May 21st, arrives back in the UK from captivity, having flown overnight from Montevideo. In the thread below are some great pictures and information.
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June 21st 1982: The damaged HMS Plymouth & HMS Glamorgan set sail together for home, firing a salute to Admiral Sandy Woodward on Hermes as they pass. Possibly no two ships were so constantly engaged throughout the war....
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July 8th 1982: SS Canberra is now 275NM West by North of Casablanca and nearly home with the Royal Marines of 42 Cdo. They receive a message saying to expect 1,000-1,500 people in Southampton as a homecoming crowd, and respond with laughter thinking there won't be that many....
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July 5th 1982: HMS Hermes & Broadsword are now running at full speed - 28.5 knots - for home. Hermes finds herself burning up diesel oil at an alarming rate and has to transfer daily from Broadsword. Meanwhile, rumours abound on-board that they have another unseen British escort.
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May 29th 1982: The Argentine flag which once hung over Goose Green is hauled down by the men of D Company, 2 Para. It was signed by all of them and now hangs at the Airborne Museum in RAF Duxford.
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March 30th 1982: Above the Argentine task force, skimming the edge of space, an SR71-A Blackbird begins to take pictures of the fleet out at sea, before heading out over the Falklands. They soon report back that Argentina is bringing an invasion force of "Everything that floats".
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May 10th 1982: A crucial meeting is held by UK commanders to determine the landing point for the amphibious phase. Some 60 senior officers arrive to give their thoughts and opinions on where the main blow should land...
(Long six-part thread coming!)
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May 1st 1982: Vulcan XM607 "Black Buck 1" arrives back at Ascension via multiple refuellings, after sixteen hours in the air... The longest bombing run in history has been completed; and history has been made...
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June 14th 1982: The Gurkhas are about the only people on the British side not happy that Argentina has surrendered, as they never got to fight them... here is the video of their officer receiving the "Bloody Marvellous" news:
piped.video/MUxTtOQ9aOk?si=Yqj8…
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June 7th 1982: At 09:05 two Argentine Learjet photo reconnaissance planes of Escuadron Fenix Grupo 1 are spotted over Pebble Island. HMS Exeter fires two Sea Darts and both planes accelerate and bank with the first missile passing between them...
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October 10th 1982: The NYT reports on the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Falklands heroes Sergeant Ian McKay (3 Para) & Lt. Colonel H Jones (2 Para) for gallantry at Mt Longdon and Goose Green respectively. A good few others deserved it too...
nytimes.com/1982/10/10/world…
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May 1st 1982: At 04.38 exactly, Vulcan XM607 begins the fightback for the #Falklands dropping twenty-one 1,000lb bombs on the runway and airport isthmus. The explosions and blast wave kill a number of men as the airport building, stores, ammunition and fuel erupt in flames...
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October 12th 1982: Some more shots of the Falklands Victory Parade and the fly pasts... and in the post below, a video of the parade itself.
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September 17th 1982: HMS Invincible returns from the Falklands war with HMS Bristol and RFA Olna, and the crowds go wild as they come out in force to welcome them home. A great day I remember so well.
More pictures in the thread below:
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April 25th 1982: The task force is now full steam ahead, and the carrier battle group joins up with the advanced group, consisting of HMS Sheffield, Glasgow, Coventry and Arrow, headed for the Falklands.
Watch out, Argentina....
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May 17th 1982: Sandy Woodward is well aware that today is Argentine Navy Day, and acting on a hunch that they will try to make it symbolic by sinking another ship, he keeps both carriers far out to the east, with Sea Harriers on CAP. His decision will transpire to be a good one.
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May 10th 1982: A crucial meeting is held by UK commanders to determine the landing point for the amphibious phase. Some 60 senior officers arrive to give their thoughts and opinions on where the main blow should land...
(long thread coming)
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April 17th 1982: A Soviet Submarine is detected around around Ascension by Nimrods on reconnaissance. Soon, several ships are launched to chase it away, including Invincible with ASW helicopters which track it...
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May 2nd 1982: At 18.57Z HMS Conqueror fires her three Mk8 torpedoes at full spread. She is now slightly off and behind the port side of Belgrano and hopes to score one or two hits... It is 43 seconds to impact...
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