One example was when the QE2 cruise ship, which had to ferry soldiers to the Falklands, and allegedly the BBC reported its whereabouts and actions. “Within eight hours of that broadcast ...
Whatever your opinion on the moral rights and wrongs of the Falklands War, it is inescapably one of the most significant historical events of the 1980s. When Argentinian dictator General Galtieri ...
Falklands' veterans from HMS Spartan gather at Sunderland's War Memorial to honor their fallen colleagues Some thirty former crew members of Swift-sure Class nuclear submarine HMS Spartan gathered ...
Karen Edwards' brother was one of 48 men killed when the Sir Galahad ship was attacked during the Falklands War. New documents, seen by BBC Wales, show the captain of a second supply ship ...
This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the rocky shores of Steeple Jason, a distant island in the Falklands archipelago, I am awed by the magnificence ...
Giorgio and Irfon struck up an unlikely friendship as prisoner of war and guard On a ship in the heat of the Falklands War, an Argentine prisoner and his Welsh guard forged a friendship during a ...
When the Welsh Guards were deployed to the Falklands in 1982 this guardsman at least continued to carry his parade bayonet. On 8 June 1982 a detachment of the Welsh guards was caught on RFA Sir ...
served with the Grenadier Guards and the Special Forces and commanded a squadron of 22 SAS Regiment behind enemy lines in the Falklands War. In April 1982, in an unprovoked attack, Argentina ...