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 ...
After British forces won the Falklands war, her popularity soared, allowing her to call a general election in 1983 which she won by a landslide. Mrs Thatcher established and chaired a small war ...
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 ...
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 ...
When paratrooper Denzil Connick was critically injured during the Falklands War, many thought he would not survive. But he was saved by a team of medics aboard the hospital ship. Forty years on ...
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 ...
Jewish soldiers will be recognized for their service during the Falklands War and the anti-Semitism they suffered will be acknowledged. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Jewish soldiers will be ...
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 ...