Middle of this, on May 2nd, there was the Belgrano, an ex-AmericanĬruiser with bigger guns than anything the navy had, wavering along the With both arms tied and needed a Nelson with two blind eyes. (Rules of Engagement) sometimes seemed so confusing, he was fighting

Instructions on TEZ (Total Exclusion Zone) and ROE Minutes of shooting down a Brazilian liner which strayed into an enemy Know where mines were laid and had no mine sweepers he came within Were whales which sounded like submarines on sonar systems he did not There was some impossible weather fog and gale there Had to deploy his forces against ship, soldier, airplane, submarine andĮxocet missile. In a welter of mixed orders from above Admiral Woodward Our operatios, over 8,000 miles away from home, had to be completedīefore witter set i we had very littl etime margi ad tie was o theĪrgentie side. With the loss of seven ships and 250 men out of 25,000 men and 100 ships Thatcher, Admiral Leach and probably the majority of the British wantedĪrgentine aggression out. The US army said recapture was impossible. The Argentinian invasion of the Falklands took place on April 2nd,ġ982. Lt-Colonel Jones of 2 Para threatened to sue the BBC for manslaughter,īut was himself killed in an Argentinian ambushs, for which some blamed |leaking for truth' which belw the amphibian landing cover. Churchill would have had a different word for this Later, ninety per cent of their intelligence came from the British The press, he observed, |did not see itself |friends' than enemies in particular the media which only an acute Survive events where the sometimes seemed to be hampered more by his HisĮarlier service as commander of a nuclear submarine taking split secondĭecisions, inside a highy technical tin gave him nerve and stamina to Just the right Celtic admix of toughness, sensitivity, intelligence andĪwkwardness, he was the right man to fight an impossible war. Say the character of Sandy Woodward flames through. Writer's skill of Patrick Robinson, one does not know suffice to How much the succes of thisi book is due to the professional One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group

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