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 ...
After British forces won the Falklands war, her popularity soared ... 3 Islanders and 649 Argentines dead. Half of the latter died after the British nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror ...
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 ...
Colonel Euan Houstoun, who has died aged 78, 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 ...
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 junta in Buenos Aires which had launched the ...
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 ...
It was in stark contrast to former Argentinian president Carlos Menem's visit to Britain three years ago, when he laid a wreath at the memorial to the British Falklands war dead at St Paul's ...
The Morton County Commission has formed a committee to explore creating a new War Dead Monument to replace the current memorial, which county officials say has sustained damage over the years.