Forty years ago, British ... Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre and 18 of his men were given the task of neutralizing the threat. The raid was fought on 31 May 1982 during the ...
In 1914, after the Great War broke out in Europe ... the London Victory Parade. The British Government maintained a small detachment of Royal Marines in the Falklands from 1952 until 1982.
A short but brutal war that saw Welsh soldiers suffer heavy casualties began 40 years ago on Saturday. The Argentine invasion of the British-held ... Atlantic with the Royal Marines, Scots Guards ...
Giorgio and Irfon struck up an unlikely friendship as prisoner of war and guard On a ship in the heat of the Falklands War ... At Easter 1982 Royal Marines Commando Band saxophonist Irfon was ...
A total of forty-three Royal Navy warships ... her sister ARA Hércules in service, due to a British boycott of parts following the Falklands War. Efforts to preserve the ship as a museum have ...
Ben Fogle uncovers one of the untold stories of the Falklands War. Hear about the battle fought by 70 British Marines against an Argentine invading force ten times that number.
Extremists in the Argentine military planned to avenge their country’s defeat by abducting John Nott while on a visit to the islands Argentine fanatics plotted to kidnap British defence ...
Sir John Nott, Margaret Thatcher’s defence secretary during the Falklands War, has died at the age ... “Of course I knew that ...
They reveal how a British diplomat in South ... In the end, Nott’s visit to the Falklands passed off without incident. Defeat in the 74-day war spelled the beginning of the end for the military ...