The Falklands War - The Untold Story (Full Documentary) | Timeline

I'm Stanley the Bulldog for compensation and the Falkland Islands government ordered you to call him and ask him to repeat the message. On April 2, 1982, a cameraman from the Argentine Navy filmed his invasion of the frogmen for cover, landing first from a submarine, followed later by the main assault force. It was a historic day for Argentina of course Rome Argentina magenta very excited atomic I was excited as an Argentinian and as a professional soldier I was excited to participate in the recovery of these islands that have been in British hands for By the way, I was very proud, you know, listen, these are the Falklands forecast studies.

Now we will only call from Alistair Grieve and Alistair. I understand that you have mentioned some of the vehicles. Where are you giving this report for Mali? standing, sitting or whatever you're doing now, okay, the situation is you might hear that the radio station has now been taken over, we have three women from arts and baths, we have everything on tape, yeah, okay for the population and just a minute yes, we don't know if you put the gun in my back. I'm going to press here if you take my gun away, but I'm not talking with a gun on my back.

Everyone was very, very depressed, obviously we didn't do it. I don't know if they were going to shoot us or what was going to happen, take them back to Argentina. Everyone knew the regime there, the military government, what they had done to their own people. I knew they wanted the Falklands and the future, well, us. Didn't we know our future at 7:00 a.m.? m., after a fierce fight, the government house was completely surrounded as I said oh no, am I with prosing? I captured two Royal Marines in a government house, they were waiting there lying on the ground with all their weapons trojan marine I saw another marine trying to get to the government house so I covered him with my machine gun made him come towards me today Yes, well, all Saturday in this Estela, suddenly you are in his hands.

I mean, there are three casualties of his for a long time on guard at the government house. I mean what kind of mood are they going to be in, you know, when they object, like they're shot and when they actually go to bed, oh yeah, I start off very humiliated, but I. I also felt apprehensive about what was going to happen next, but one of the Argentinian officers came and yes, he hit one of the guards. They told me to stay there and we stood up and yeah, well, I shook my hand and shook him a Some of the guys shook hands and said, "You know, we shouldn't lie down and we should be proud of what we've done." .

I was so glad she stopped. More or less I didn't feel like seeing her being shot to pieces after fundamental angel in a ghost of devahuti the Royal Marines lack our motivation I think the reason for our motivation was the cause we were defending yes, okay, you have to understand that we were defending something that was ours they were simply following orders like professional soldiers a super professional military attend to defend gender a hotel or money that a team people Remote Apogee Akkad much a public event in the Medina Nazuna Austral operation all all that distance that this season from maras The Kiss of Santa María is the Moroccan Tino.

The Falklands are a national cause in Argentina. We got into that bull in elementary school. We learn about his lost heritage. How the British stole the islands in 1833. Murphy's young people are shown that the islands are part of Argentina's continental shelf. gilded in pastel bells the extension of the continent an underwater port from a South American perspective Britain's claim to the islands is absurd even an unpopular dictatorship would be acclaimed if it could recapture the Falklands when news of the invasion reached the victors Aras the crowds went crazy the military regimes hi

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of violent repression economic crisis everyone was forgotten overnight the national dream of reoccupying the Malvinas had become a reality nia-malika final agreements also arrived I cannot deny that I was immensely excited it was exciting to see the huge crowd outside the government house supporting our action regardless of their political beliefs, the workers had demonstrated against the government in that same square just a few days before, but now even the unions were there supporting Argentina, so I can't deny that it was one of the most moving moments of my life, the kiss-ass once again exciting and most important and a lifetime.

Have you heard of the opening day of the Governor's Gates in London? there was outrage that the government had allowed sovereign British territory to be invaded there were noisy scenes in Parliament, quickly followed by resignations, it is a national humiliation and I have been responsible for five matters and I don't think it is right that when that happens the minister responsible continue as if nothing had happened and I think it is an honorable thing to do is to give up the prestige of Britain was seriously damaged the government turned to the Armed Forces I think everyone thought it would all be over before we got there some small troops in the Leyland when the Royal Navy Major commented that he sneaked home wasn't all I thought.

Why the hell did he want to invade some place that would leave Scotland sober? Because no one understood where the Malvinas are, it's night and I have no idea. I always said it years ago to preserve a war. I am very excited. I will return. the Belfast where I was going you know they won't take me to the war now I didn't join the war I didn't want to go because I thought well I have to go you know the taxpayers within my salary for all these years and that's okay they called my number for once , so they called all our numbers for once as the task force team headed south through the tropics, few of those on board thought they were actually going to war on their thing, all of this was really excited.

He said the social life is fantastic, you know we're playing darts and there's a lot of people, Carly, cribbage games and a lot of debt games. I need any of your letters and whatever is waiting for us down there, nothing will look too bad if we still had that happy atmosphere on board the ship. There was a curious air of unreality on the path to ascension. None of us really thought war would come at that time. Every day we heard from the BBC World Service about the diplomatic maneuvers that were taking place. and we really believed that there would be a diplomatic agreement and they were just an extension of that diplomacy, we had to learn Spanish pretty much the only thing we learned was things like mana Cerebus and Lindsey, which means hands up and surrender.

I didn't think there was much point knowing that I would give up or anything, many of them had adopted a rather cheerful and enthusiastic attitude. One of the helicopter pilots told me that he had never dropped a real depth charge on a live target and was very eager to get there now and one of the harrier pilots said that what Britain needed was a small wall like this that would make endless good things. The Malvinas became an armed camp for its thousands of young recruits. I arrived from Argentina the first time to Congress to the town here, everything there was.

The first time I entered Ponce, before I realized that everything related to English, there was practically nothing there that reminded me of Argentina. I remember picking up a small nail and it had this. made in England written in Claro Clarita this year Valon Inga so I started to wonder what it all meant I thought where am I what is this They had told me that we were going to the Falklands to defend our people but it turned out that they want our people at all so there was to ask who the invaders would be, them or us Kyrenia Malvinas theater of operations command statement number four guarantees the continuity of the way of life of the people of the island, respecting private property, freedom to enter, leave or remain on the island, it is also urged the population to continue normally with their activities one of the first things they said when they arrived nothing would change and the next thing they said was how things had to change we had to drive on the other side of the road I had to have passes to go through Stanley, no I would leave it if Stanley and the people of course thought about the Second World War and how the French, the Dutch and the countries they know in Europe occupied by the Germans must have felt. from Granada down, but I'm serious, our military prisons grew until about ten thousand men surrounded the town, so the port of Argentina became almost a small island in a sea of ​​troops, but I am proud to say that during our occupation of the Malvinas was like this.

In a single case of rape or attempted rape there was not a single case of assault there were some robberies the offenders were court-martialed and sentenced whether they were recruits non-commissioned officers or officers teeth ashiya-kun officials officer Soldier and has next to him is unoccupied and It was very UK, we were as careful as we are, we noticed a lot of Argentinians banging on the door and calling my husband, he said fine and we let them break down the door on our lawn and give them the key. The Argentinians took him away immediately and He was forced to kneel at our front door it was a bitterly cold day Sunday afternoon for about 20 minutes he was kneeling there in his shirt sleeves with a machine gun on his back.

I never realized what it was like when you can't sit down. I tried to sit up, I couldn't, I was so tense in other solos, all I did was walk to the kitchen, make a cup of coffee and come back. I didn't know that in 20 and a half minutes you could now drink so many cups. of coffee and I put on Land of Hope and Glory and I opened the windows and I felt that no, my husband's sense of humor that if he died, the last thing he heard was that at least he would die maybe with a smile on his face the United States They were eager to avoid a war between two of their closest allies.

The whole conflict seemed strange. It seems to be much less important than it obviously seemed to both sides because the Falkland Islands alone did not seem to be objectively that important if I may say so. someone and yet they had suddenly become the focus of this huge and intense conflict. Alexander Haig desperately sought the negotiated settlement when the shuttle was born. P of him was David Comfort, of course, the most memorable memory one has of London was Mrs. Thatcher herself, and the way she chaired the War Cabinet and spoke for Britain in the negotiations, would allow others to speak to address particular issues based on their experience, but in all cases she would have the final say and in some cases she herself explicitly overruled a senior member of her cabinet, she never had any doubt that we might have been those of us who at one time or another would think if we gave a little more, would it finally be like this and the problems that still we had not faced?

She actually invaded from ships in the southern county, but she showed herself totally determined in London and we did not find a very positive disposition towards negotiation; The view there was simply that foreign troops had occupied land for which Her Majesty's Government is responsible and the issue in question was the withdrawal of troops, not the negotiation of terms after those troops had left and that is all we received by way of encouragement in London, the stormy waters of the South Atlantic brought with them a change in the atmosphere aboard the task ships - the closer they got to the islands, the greater the need for military preparation.

The Royal Marines who defended the islands in the original Argentine invasion had been deported to Britain by their captors and were now returning as part of the task force of which we were a part. a celebrity status, like you know, with the other Marines, you know, it's like it's turning on. I've been in the fire and I like doing this more than the next guy and you all dragged the old down on you. I know we're going to go in there and dig these Lawtons as you get closer to the old stuff for Queen and Country and all that went out the window, you know, and it was more like, let's go down and do it and come back.

You know, yeah, you don't have to go down and make it great. I was pretty convinced we were going to fight. I have too much imagination to be brave or enthusiastic, something like Lee, my company commander, John Key, was in. in many ways of the same opinion as me, I remember that I once spoke with him and they took a photograph of us at the control of a company that was on the left flank and we looked afterwards and he said to me, well, it's quite sad, but some of those faces won. I won't be there if we take a photo on the way back.

I thought about it for a while and decided to write a letter to my wife and explain how much I loved her, my feelings for her, things she could remind me of a piece of music a place to go I gave her some advice on how to behave as a widow as I remember and It was difficult for me to write. It was more difficult to run and write to my son and I don't think how. Even now I hadn't reread it, but I was certainlyerased by tears after I wrote it and then it was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

Then I sent it to my father. I asked him and then I asked him. to pass them on in the event of my death when theazari peace shuttle encountered a series of setbacks in its clear denial that the task will not be easy but the stakes are so great that it demands maximum effort on the part of participants. In these discussions, thanks to the atmosphere in the streets, it was one of joy. The hunter promised that the Falklands would never be handed over. Argentina would never renounce its birthright. There was a type of frivolity in their attitude. idea of ​​what war would be like.

They had no idea of ​​the tragedy of the war and the loss of life they had suffered. They had no feeling that they were going to be defeated, as I pointed out, they were surely going to be defeated, they had no experience in war, they would be fighting against one of the great powers of the world, which is Great Britain, and they couldn't even discuss the matter. in all seriousness they could not decide between themselves and by then it was clear that they had decided to go ahead, if only because they were unable to unite in the decision not to go ahead with the war;

It was our inability to do so. Understanding that agreement, our failure to keep it in Buenos Aires, which had in fact removed the last obstacle and allowed the forces to get involved and start the killings. I do, he had the first British launch an air attack on Argentine positions around us. I was woken up by a friend who said they are here, they heard they heard the British are here. He was so elated that he would turn the front window and jump up and down, and when I turned around I realized that the Argentinians had been in the pimple's nest. a few meters from our heads they were pointing a gun at me and indicating that unless I ducked and they were going to shoot me, so needless to say I quickly climbed out the window, we were probably a lot more confident and should have.

And I think the general feeling was that, well, we've given the Argentinians a bloody nose and very soon they'll turn around and say, if we don't do it anymore, it'll all be over. Argentina was not defenseless against the working group. It also had a powerful navy that set out to find the British fleet and sink it. There were new warships equipped with modern missiles, but proudest of all was the World War II cruiser USS Phoenix, now renamed in honor of one of Argentina's greatest heroes, General Belgrano, the evil alien who served in The Belgrano was the goal of every professional sailor due to its tradition and because of what it represented to the Argentine Navy.

The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror had been patrolling the South Atlantic for fifteen days and for two days it destroyed the Belgrano right in that same 94 at 4:00 p.m. May 2, under direct orders from London, fired three torpedoes at the cruiser to Stockholm. 275 sailors died as a result of that explosion and the massive flood that followed four seconds later. The second torpedo arrived fifteen feet from the valley, but those 15 feet practically disappeared into the water, all the crew members gathered in their life rafts waiting for the order to abandon ship. practically so that the water tamil officer the ordinary heaven God finally decided to give that order and surely it must be the most painful and tragic order in the career of a naval officer must be the most important call tragically all so vexed orreal Sailor one feels facilitate to Odin about Wendy no Father South of people in de we knew that there were more people below deck and there was nothing they could do to rescue them no, we would have cried but it was simply impossible, all we could do was cry and pick up the wounded from the main deck and take them to the life rafts, most of them have been burned by explosions and fires.

We knew we were leaving behind many of our friends who were below deck hoping that somehow we could rescue them, we just could. I couldn't reach them, I couldn't bear to leave them behind. I can click on it so that the stern Kala Hotel and the Fuko leaders, that truce, friends, was not fatal, then there was nothing you could do driven by the strong winds towards the Southern Ocean. life rafts from the Belgrano floated in sub-zero temperatures after two days some were recovered by the hospital ship for a Paraiso many of the sailors from the Belgrano had died from exposure they had literally frozen to death come on the walk of beauty save that in I remember that We called a life raft and it had someone on it who seemed to be asleep.

He was so well bundled up that all you could see was his face. He had this survival suit on and his life jacket was well prepared at a distance he seemed to be sleeping peace

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y with his hands folded under his face like the guy who had obviously climbed on top of the life raft looking for rescue ships when we brought him on board We discovered that he was dead commitment that he saw blurred see you that young officer was the sworn lieutenant Seville duel by telephone jamaa calling me tribute or perhaps hostess occasion that night my other son called me and they asked me if I had been listening to the radio I said no, I would be watching television I had been listening to some ridiculous stories on a foreign radio station but it didn't say anything else so I went to bed when early the next morning I turned on the radio and the first thing I heard was in the Del Grande it has been attacked Casey you do it oh dear and honest Bombardier Oh reconsider this big oh come on I ran to the phone to call my son my sister and it turned out that he had been up all night listening to the news that was the beginning of me and my Valerian Long Knives of The investigation on a Monday there is no one the next day there is no news on Tuesday nothing that afternoon the priest of the church right in front of my house said a special mass or my neighbors and family came to pray for my son he returned safe and sound, but There was going to be no doubt about Grasse Araminta's prophecy, so come on, he was just a kid, he was six foot five, keep him in your memory, so happy, so healthy, listen, boys, uh, Sonny, oh, well, You wouldn't like it.

Seeing me cry a little like that in the Basilica, the widow sees the moment Commander speaking today we have had a great success the Rada belt the Argentine cruiser has been torpedoed south of the Falkland Islands by one of our SFM any euphoria after the sinking of a The enemy ship was short-lived. The pilots of the Argentine Navy were determined to strike back. The thieves took off from airfields in the south of Argentina with exercise missiles and went in search of revenge. HMS Sheffield was attentive to the enemy plane well ahead of the main feet. british sliding arrow one public target zero one zero one zero four factories facing this sea it was very calm we were looking out to sea and I thought it looked like a torpedo was on its way because the sea wanted to shine and shiver if you like, so I said I thought there was a torpedo The pilot had also pointed his glasses at the same place and said no, it's an exercise.

He watched grimly and other members of the bridge crew began to take cover, but I remember. Myself on the second officer watch I was transfixed by how Miss Islands really surprises me now. I think we saw it almost to the point of impact when we quickly huddled together and fell to the ground, San Carlos. chosen place for the British landings, the special boat squadron had been secretly observing the area for weeks, they were surprised to find that it was lightly defended to feed the sweet olives, we would not be able to defend each and every place where the forces British could have chosen to disembark.

We did not have enough resources, we had to defend the main objective that was taught to Argentina, we needed of course the Argentines to be trained by the Americans or the infantrymen by the Americans and they believed that we were too, that's why they thought that they were doing it. land would understand and they assumed that because we had American influence we would have properties to send it, we didn't do it that way and in almost anything else it would have caused terrible and typically unforgivable casualties to civilians and they are simply not the British. way of doing things we prefer a more subtle approach to these matters shoo whoa a super toaster Vittorio yes, di via des picado me collab rumah a not only was it not true I went up to the observation post and the fog was lifting, I could clearly see several frigates and transport ships and there were dozens of helicopters flying around a landing craft coming towards us, Tara said, fear not, Mayday was really transmitting spice and let me tell you, it was quite a sight.

I had never seen such a fleet deployed in front of me there. There were 5,000 troops about to disembark and there I was with my 40 men when we arrived at the beach in my private boat, the ramp lowered and a naval order that is part of their exercises, I suppose, came out while the troops were leaving and not a single soul I enter. the ship because, of course, when you move a paratrooper collectively, don't shout, who shouts and leave, and this raw sailor shouted again, nothing happened and then a clever important shout, go away, I have already flooded from the ship, the The actual landing was a bit ridiculous in the sense that we all thought they were going to war, but there was no opposition, so there were five hundred and six hundred screaming paratroopers coming out of a landing craft onto a beach, having never done that kind of thing before. .

I was so used to going to war or exercising by parachute, that chaos reigned for a while where companies had to regroup and go after their own individual tasks, so if the landing had been reversed, I think we would have had some problems in the first stages. When his troops landed, Brigadier Julian Thompson feared an air attack on the ships anchored in San Carlos. He tried to alert London of the danger without success. I was well aware that I was responsible for the lives of a large number of men. I sent a letter in the which said that of course we would carry out the landings, that is what we have been told to do, but you must know that if we are attacked by air and the enemy is successful in their attack, we will take very, very many casualties, in fact, the Politicians should never show military advisors that they are afraid of too many characters, if they do they will put caution in the commander's way, when caution comes they may not get the right answer, people you are a fast jet pilot .

You have to be good or you're dead, I think it's a question of which country you come from because they have very good reactions and they have to be good and the Argentinian you imagine on vacation with pilots, polo players and what better kind of talk to have him sitting in a fighter xi diamond draw you know the world a drain what beers I said my altimeter thirty feet but I must have gone lower than that because the alarm went off several times we were flying at 450 knots and at that kind of altitude, well, it's a pretty peculiar experience, yeah , I saw the figurative mast ahead and we lined up for the attack, so if they are not better at attacking, they knew what you are doing, they knew how to attack the ship, they all lined up one after another and came to this bend at that time the captain ordered maximum speed we tried to maneuver there 20 millimeters to aim but it seemed that whichever direction the captain turned the ship there was a plane lined up at the stern that needed to get in it will get our direction below it, incremental area, so speed and at maximum, The boat was reacting well.

I could see that she was moving at maximum speed. Head into open water in the middle of the channel, trying to maneuver away from us when you have to. unions, maybe atella at that moment the ship was directly below me, so I leaned this way and dropped the bombs and the ladder. I certainly felt like the captain below me knew what he was doing, a copy as he flew me away, I heard my partner say well. fact sir, which meant that at least one of my bombs had hit the target Jamie numeral that said very well Madam assume indicates lucky day I home bus won under it the pilot my Crabtree was very quiet as we got off the hill and we were blowing smoke and in the back we couldn't see what was happening and we could smell the smoke from the fire and then we got to the float on the port side and we looked and it's a sight I'll never forget, the fires of hell burning on that ship she was a tanker the gun was pointed skyward all the hydraulic power was gone the flight deck just crashed open with a can opener I remember waking up again the mess hall was completely dark I could see my hand was hurt but we were all level 95, like I just see a mess and ice of blood around my hand and there is no pain or sensation whatsoever, I mean, football league and so these days, I finger my problem with a quick feeling on the wrist, mybody and I had a big chunk shaped like a sticking out on the top of my head here.

I took out two. Then I tried to get up and just couldn't. I was able to get on all fours but I couldn't crawl out. whatever it was that was stopping me from moving terribly feeling terrible and thinking about getting help to get out I thought a little fooled by the fact that I had survived this far pray and I could hear someone moving through the rubble and he appeared to me and said: Oh, I'm eight years old, right, and I think you know, okay, get this off my back. I couldn't even see the man, dark lord, that's something or what I was thinking in those days, at that time my wife was.

She was five months pregnant at the time with her first child and I wanted to get home, but like a bicycle, like a miracle, the boat must have slipped, but we received a breath of sweet-tasting air and the hole in the side still I caught up, so Aaron did and took a big long fold and we started heading back to the boat. I sent them all out and then ISIL stood there on the bridge with my own people taking out all my men by then and I, Yarmuth, put their stern to our bow because we were sinking at that time and finally I walked alongside them and the I stepped on it and it was very sad and when we walked away from her I never lost my boys they were crying we, yes, yes, when they looked.

Past me, the bus horn, don't do this, yeah, when I'm on the ship, I'm not trying to kill anyone, I certainly wasn't trying to kill the burning crew, what I'm trying to do is leave the ship out of combat even. although I hope that without causing casualties that's how I felt throughout the war because and that's how all my colleagues clearly felt about those hours to put it out I have to come to Captain West, well, I tell him that I regret sinking his ship and I'm sorry some of his men had to die, but I was doing my job just like he was doing his meter. as the state with cousin we were called by a team in Minerva contact Northwest 40 miles all we saw was a vicara that was taken by chat or tomba major in my first encounter I shot it and shot off half of its left aileron and said its The Right engine was on fire, so it was knocking, well, I walked away and thought it was going to go to the ground, not even a little bit.

There is a moment when I shoot ER. I am Aryan. I looked at my wing and saw a gaping hole that looked like a bit. like a rose with open petals before Ra's al Ghul of ruthless a military weirdo then I saw the two Harriers flying over me my plane was shaking but I could still fly so I kept flying trying to escape but I ordered it action Alan vomits or a functional environment This time I went in slowly, lowered my fins to lower my nose, so I aimed easier, noting the height on my head-up display, care

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y, but kept going nice and smooth, and fired a long burst at him, set the engine.

Burning port side struck pieces of the rear fuselage and the canopy shattered. EC and ODS points off. I go, they see I turned and felt another gust hitting my crew so big that the plane was still shaking and then an engine on fire. See, I was starting to lose control, the fire started to spread and suddenly I completely lost it. I had to expel myself. I feel very close to the plane that we have about 40 or 50 meters away. Madhavi gave up with gum on the wounds and me. I thought well, what character I mean, he should have gotten out of the first pass, stayed with him until they just didn't fly away, got out right before he hit the ground and apparently walked back to Goose Green, was captured later and had nothing . about the utmost respect for him, I mean, that was real bravery.

I called the operating room after I had taken him down and said more trading, that means anything else we can do and the guy said, wait, I said, what do you mean, wait, he said, lecture? We had just drawn up our options and were shooting with 30 millimeter weapons. The man across the desk room lost the top of his head and I got hit in the arm and I was recovering and I felt terrible. Well, sorry, within seven seconds he was back on line saying, "Right, we think we have an exchange for you all the way up north." The Argentine pilots suffered heavy losses, only a few survived being shot down.

I mean a pencil again. I won with one side. Allah. I really thought they were going to throw me overboard because well I guess when they just captured him there you can't be a little paranoid they were taking off my survival suit I'm pointing this rifle at myself but I also have this Great feeling of relief afterwards After all, he was alive. I wrapped the blanket, let's take them to this one, then I looked down and noticed my left leg was at a weird angle, it was dislocated, I was in terrible pain, so they gave me an injection.

With more woman painted with an M on my forehead, it has a complete stop and our justification that his left knee probably broke part of the muscle in his thigh. He had a patella bone dislocation of his left knee cap and I have reduced the dislocation. Now we've wrapped it up. He has a lot of bleeding around the joint, since he has an antenna and a pin to be able to do it completely. I was also taken to the hospital and this doctor told me that you're just another patient here, DeLeon, and the truth is that's exactly how I've felt ever since.

Not with you, of course, I was in British hands, but they never really treated me like a prisoner. He was just another patient. They don't know it, but although many Argentine planes were shot down, the task force remained vulnerable to air strikes. May, the Atlantic transporter 25 was hit by Nexus with a missile when we were driving there there was a chaplain from the merchant mariner mission in Manchester and Claire passes by and an adult, you know, waiting for us on the road and I saw her little blue badge on her flap and you too. I must understand that something is wrong, so he said: Can I talk to the place of the house to make suggestions?

I also said that the children go to the kitchen, please, and I saw them off in the kitchen. He took me in and out. He said I'm afraid of something bad. news for you I said what a bad thing he said I'm afraid it's the worst and then I couldn't get rid of the man I just wanted him to go away he says calm down make another one a cup of strong tea I can remember that and they came and kept saying I said so much, calm down, see you later and then he left and then of course I told the children digitally I only said that the ship had been hit, the father had been killed and they sent me a but Look at the map that says Frank, people, spiders, see Wednesday, May 26.

I received an analysis of a plastic bag, write the wrist watch from it. Christopher is where they drink very upset and they took this quite easily because I was worried that it was very, very tight, he had never taken it off and I was worried how it had been taken off his fingers, um, and he always used to wear a cap. down because not only did your oil get written in your hair and his cap was in this plastic bag, but they're all still wet when they came out of the sea. The British forces entrenching at San Carlos were halted by the loss of vital equipment on the Atlantic transporter, but Julien Thompson was under pressure from London to continue the war, by which time it was clear to me that there was a need in England policy of a victory so that it could be seen that we were doing something.

He seemed to be winning. I think there were many others who were initially worried that, having gotten a beachhead in San Carlos, we would be stuck there and not be able to get out of there because we all have memories. There were memories of the time we took. coming out of the beachhead in Normandy and in terms of the whole Falklands it wasn't the big area, but it was just trapped in a very small area and confined there, it would have had all sorts of problems in every way, especially on the front diplomatic because if we did not manage to move forward, all the ceasefire proposals would become stronger and the ceasefires would have conditions that would not have been beneficial from our point of view, all those risks, so a break was very important. happy enough or they will take it into account, if you like dying for your queen and your country, you certainly don't contemplate dying for politicians.

I was often called by radio telephone to speak to the higher cause in Northwood and on one particular occasion I can remember After a particularly irritating colonization and territory, I left the store and said to myself, with a bit of a temper, I will win the war for these bastards and then I will follow direct orders from London, the second parachute battalion launched an attack against Argentina. fortress in Goose Green it is dark there is a huge mountain noise there is fire coming towards you there is white phosphorus firing to provide smoke and illumination there is a tracker coming towards you and it is going to move away from you there is fear running through you you are approaching towards the trenches throw grenades you fire your gun the burning is a wild sewer fighting against everything you have experienced before is nothing like it is a basic assassination under the command of two to was Lt.

Col. H Jones H Jones of the warrior was not a soldier in times of peace was determined, he was aggressive, he was determined, a charismatic leader, everyone knew that he was in charge, the comrade spoke on the radio with a company and told him to control himself, accelerate and continue the movement, something that they could not, so he said he was having none of this and decided to go up and join a scam, to say he got a little pear shaped would be an understatement when he decided something was going to be done and then it was going to be done. you don't really have time to think if the CEO says to do something and then you do it, you might think that the fool after ordering it but you go out and do it and the mate said we joined a company and we are reviewing the above so we joined a company and we reached the top, we wanted to get there, so we are in a little better position, but when I got there, the fellow didn't stop, he kept running, so I thought here we go and suddenly someone behind me He shouted, be careful, there is a trench on the left and I will watch his back again because I could see what was going to happen and he ignored me or didn't listen to me, I would think he actually ignored me.

I and charged up the hill to neutralize the trench that he was shooting at when he got within six or seven feet of that trench, he actually took fire from the trenches behind, you know you could actually see and I saw the bullets hit the ground. behind him he gradually approached him and in fact shot him in the back and the impact of the bullets hit him, in fact he pushed him right above the trench towards which he was heading towards Sigma in his headquarters had prepared a phrase lightning of sun made so that If we had had, I would know that something was wrong with it, which would be the key for me to intervene in the gap and in this confusion this scream came over the radio, the sun's ray ran out.

I couldn't believe it and I actually responded to the check and The cars are Blackburn, his Sigma shot it again, the sunbeam fell, for God's sake, and then the surge of apprehension and fear and would I do well enough, what do I do now? What's the situation up there? he went through me, you know, a little numb from the fact that you. SEOs aren't supposed to die and the actual implication of the commanding officer assuming an enemy frontal position was kind of comic book material that you read about and don't really believe should happen. I handed him over because he was lying on his back, they removed the membranes and I actually found the wound and at that point he was still conscious although he fell into unconsciousness so I stayed there trying to keep him warm with extra wind protection and his own jacket cited and unfortunately, some time later he died. a tenant Colonel Joe captain good captain less than inspiring day next to the prisoner of war Cade were the sheep pens were actually a pile of ammunition that had to be moved and we had a rough idea that there was a booby trap and the antenna officers of the RCI if they would move the ammunition for their own safety, then a detailed officer was intending to help move the ammunition, which was arterial shells and mortar ammunition, and they were moving them and suddenly there was an explosion and there was a booby trap there . and the soldier involved right next to the booby trap was actually in a vacuum, flames and explosives and the only thing that could be done for the soldier because we couldn't get to him was they shot him to put him out of his misery. because there was nothing more humanly to do for him and then I really thought I was lucky that it was a kind of eerie, dark, icy silence and then the mind ran wild and I felt tears running down the siding we faced when I thought of the good guys who actually died that day and the fact that more were likely to die tomorrow here and there, a lump formed in my throat and I lay there for a couple of hours, going over the day's events in preparation. for advance.

Reinforcements were brought from Stanley to San Carlos to avoid a long march. The Welsh GuardsThey were transferred aboard the ship Sir Galahad. He set sail for a place called Bluffco. Due to bad weather, Sir Galahad was diverted from Bluff Cove towards a small inlet called Fitzroy. UN Major South Taylor was horrified by the arrival of the ship packed with troops in broad daylight. She was in grave danger from an Argentine air attack. He wanted the men urgently moved from the ship to the safety of the shore just 200 meters away and I set him in motion. the senior officer they could find in their forward gun turn that I considered in professional opinion as a land court officer and someone involved in a previous war on foot or with missiles, my career was that they should go down first and then wait , he was inflexible.

That Cove bluff was his destination and not Fitzroy. I was equally adamant that I was not going to take him out to bluff cocaine in daylight and of course I was tragically proven right and if you tell anyone else that my ship sank I pointed it out to them. He was two hundred meters away, maybe it would only take 20 minutes to get all the men off of him. He said he wouldn't put his men in a mix of layers of ammunition, but we listened to Citrus Trim, but we had the baits next to us to catch them.

On the spot I explained to him that this is a war, we did not operate with peacetime restrictions during the war and that the men were in grave danger and I think that was probably the most serious point, but the one I raised most often, and finally in a fit of extreme anger I told him that he was behaving extremely responsibly and that he would not hold me responsible for what happened to his men and a poor country of course three or four hours eight and I passed in some correct there are parties shouting shouting them I wish everyone great favor there is no way to escape the flames bounced back and caught most of my back.

My legs were not sure they had caught fire and, as always, trying to get out, I fell, I saw demands, it was read on the deck as if the metal had been in a blacksmith looking for food; it was like I was seeing double, there was a hand and the waves, the skin of the am should actually reach the top here and it was like a glove on the top and I was flapping with both hands when I recovered. I don't know how long I couldn't have been out that long, so all I could feel was a burning sensation in my lower left leg, so I didn't think anything of it. so I also tied myself mainly to stand up without thinking about losing it and I remember looking at my left hand because that was what worried me the most because it melted and when I stood up my leg was gone, there were just a few little pieces of it left.

As you looked, you saw that other people were injured, probably your companions, but you couldn't recognize them. Due to the blackness of the face, the burns on the head turned completely black and began to bubble and scab over and smelled horrible. I was bleeding from the head, but there was nothing desperately wrong with me and I knew where the door was and I started thinking about getting out and I tried to get on my knees and the thickness of the layered smoke took my breath away so I had to go back up. going down to the ground unfortunately I was in the remains of another person and at that moment but I felt it, I couldn't see it, so I started walking towards the exit, where I knew it was and a chat from the back of the room very, very muffled because into the smoke and darkness, he began to scream that he had lost his leg and that was the most important turning point in my life, whether or not I would always go to help him out, no one would have known because it was only him and I who were left alive in the room and I decided I wanted to be a hero, so I went back for him and we were calling to each other through the darkness and I was still desperately trying to talk myself into turning around and heading out of everyone. modes.

I found Kevin Woodford by accident. and I must have stepped on the stump of his leg because the next thing I knew a fist came out of the darkness and hit me and Kevin was very, very obviously hysterical. I couldn't find my morphine or his morphine, everything was confusing to me. and we took the morphine, the next run was called in the pond and he was a big man and the only thing I could do was put my arms under his arms and start dragging him along the ground in the direction of where I knew the exit.

All the chairs were fine and he said that they had become barricades and since it was heavy and I couldn't lift it and I couldn't breathe either because this mug had to destroy the barricades with a bulldozer and very quickly I lost all my strength and was completely losing control. . I got about three quarters of the way out of the room when I was raised with him and had to leave him. I was going to get help, but now I was down to a couple hundred. on the stretcher and I was holding my left leg in the air and there were obviously a lot of pieces hanging from it, so I guess it looked very phonetic when they took me off the helicopter.

I looked down, there was a film crew there and they seemed to jump on me, so I was a little upset because I had been aware that I cursed the old school slogan or whatever and there they were filming me probably because it seemed like the state from my leg the victims were airlifted to the British hospital ship Uganda Chris White suffering from shock and convinced that he had let a man die below deck tried to take his own life and I realized that they had not taken my aamna pon mi morphine vial that was a fixture My dog ​​tags were around my neck so I sprayed the morphine on my chest aiming for my heart and I just moved my shirt to the side and hit it but obviously the needle wasn't deep enough and I was spaced out for a moment.

A little after that, Father came down, he had heard about this particular person who kept trying to do this nonsense and he had also been talking to a young man who was in intensive care who had had his leg amputated by the hospital. action at the Galahad and he put two and two together and came down and took me to Kevin Woodford and I could. I couldn't recognize Kevin because, like I said, when I first met him, he was in the dark, we looked at each other one by one. another first few centimeters and that was it, it is a less incredible feeling, all the burn victims were treated together in a converted officers' mess on board Uganda, there was also a kind of burning stench, no and very close to the carpet there were a little kitchen, but it's not fun with burnt toast and when you just open a door and there were about 40 pairs of black spaces and it was an Apollo feeling like we better just want us to go out undercover and open and turn on the lane line and Then we thought, God: you have the most difficult hiring in your face and you just walked in and tried to smile and continue with your work and you had very little hair, no eyelashes or eyebrows, his hands at that moment had been put in what I call calamity and bag, which is a bag that goes over the hand, a special cream that they use for very serious burns.

We just wanted to go back to your room and cry our eyes out because he found it, so definitely find his paper. I could have gotten them. The men left within 20 minutes, there is no doubt that box was over and anyone with a professional sense would have followed the advice of the expert on the spot regardless of rank, but unfortunately I did not carry the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, who, As far as I can tell, Kiss was the only man who is prepared to hear it and I think it was probably the angriest I've ever been in my career, although I wasn't directly involved, it was certainly the only time in my career I felt almost ashamed for being involved in something that went wrong and although I partly blame myself for not insisting more vigorously that the men be brought ashore, I feel that I am not really to blame for the death of his name and it stays with me even after six figures.

The distance from San Carlos to Stanley is 60 miles. The British troops had to walk all the way. This yump took place under extremely harsh conditions. Freezing temperatures. Snow and torrential rain. You can get fresh water, so obviously you know to take what you can. the soil and um, we would trample the peat or dig holes until we got a puddle. There was also grass on the ground and we poured water into a cup and put some sterilized tablets. The water was absolutely black, but I mean you drank. No matter how many tubs of sperry you've sterilized and the tablets are going to end up taking it out on you now, I never had underpants on and when you got to Stanley and there were quite a few kinds I had because um, you know, having one of those on our tree, right under it, I just cut his boxers off, threw them away and kept walking, I mean, there's nothing else he could do, I mean, drive the point, he just said, you know, so.

What you can do because you are losing body fluids is just drink a lot of water, of course, we will drink that crap again as the British troops approached, the Argentine recruits could only wait, entrenched in the mountains around Stanley, which they prepared for the battles endings is an innocent conversation the emotion in those last days we talked about was how many would die five ten twenty we feel this helplessness but I'm waiting for death and there was nothing we could do about it so look back and see what I've done in your life, but we were 19, so there's not much we could have really done if we'd ever heard it from the British: there was an anxious wait, the troops had to wait until the order to attack was given, nothing happened and the tension It was quite electric and we were all moving an extended line and still nothing happened and we were just waiting and after a while, you know the people, you will also feel almost a sense of relief, the people will be anything, well, they have troubled.

We find out that they're no longer here and just as we started to feel like suddenly the horizon literally lit up in some sort of sea of ​​white flashes, that opening gunfight was pretty incredible, it was like being on the wrong end of the machine. The range of the gun and the noise was incredible and I think we were quite stunned for a minute or two and you really had the feeling that if you raised your hand you knew that each one of them was slightly in the air and would be ejected. You will meet another. really big or adversity is just a delay, the grenade exploded near us and lifted the soldier up, but there were screams, explosions and bullets flying, total chaos anyway, he stood up and screamed, they hit me, I hit that lady mediator of arrows, he was swearing. and shouting at the top of his lungs but he could still walk he turned to me and said take my rifle he handed the test to another soldier and then he started shouting I'm leaving I'm leaving I guess he meant it was over for him, he had had enough , all this was happening with the British troops right in front of us, very close, it was all so crazy it's hard to explain, now I see people saying football in it anyway, he started walking away and they threw a match at him.

He had thrown a grenade at him before and he could actually shoot it and he started screaming, he was like a human torch, but what really bothered us was that he was lighting up a position so the enemy could see us, so we started renting him. He was at that point. We didn't care if our total internal machinery lived or died, the arsenal of salicin deposits, you know right, you can always tell if you're close to someone when they've been hit because you hear the crack of the bullet but you also hear a kind of horrible thud. when the bullet hits a solid meat bone and it is quite unpleasant.

It is extraordinary. This phase is very grim and even if you've never heard that kind of thing before, you instinctively know exactly what happened and one. of my soldiers Vera Nitesite suddenly saw one of them and we heard the crunch and we heard the blow when he hit the Argentine there was a moment of silence and there were terrible screams from his Argentine and he was screaming for his mother and there was complete silence. from both sides at this point and we both heard it and I'm sure in some ways we were as horrified as the Argentinian, it really was a horrible noise and it went on and on and on Tamina Gabrielle, Millie Wendy, you.

I won the video bet then I finished loading and when I got up there was a British soldier right in front of me we borrow other people's time they rule us and then he shot me they shot me in the head I felt like I was falling . back in slow motion they must have thought he was dead, they just left me there, but actually the bullet hadn't hit the skull, it ran through my helmet and hit me in the back of the head, maybe whatever it was and I thought, Oh my God. I'm alive. I turned around, I don't know how, and started crawling backwards without strength, oh, I got it.

I tried to get up but I couldn't. Sally saw me. I reached the edge of the mountain and remember seeing the entire valley. Below me it was like a vision of hell, thank you, the most terrifying vision I have ever seen in my life, explosions, machine guns, rattling, soldiers screaming and shouting, many companions, bomb before they hit you.wow, Amit Reza, Dora, screaming, Courtney, I felt like everything was spinning when I tried to stand up. up I fell down the slope you won't recognize me friend McKay let me climb aboard where are they all thought he was dead?

I was conscious but I couldn't move a single muscle so they wrapped me in this blanket and put me on top of this pile of bodies. It's not serious, yes, Lovato did it, she cleaned it up afterwards, a sergeant appeared writing down the names of the soldiers. dead, he was crying, he seemed desperate, well it was such complete chaos and he started talking to me and I must have blinked this Oracle, he suddenly realized that he was still alive because when they tell you that when we started climbing the mountain and the enemy we were melting before us, we went faster and faster until we reached the top and in some ways we almost couldn't believe that we had reached the top and they were only four kilometers away or something like that and clearly in sight with Stanley we could see the lights and I think for a second or two I just kind of stood there looking at this with the euphoria that you know we had done it and of course that was fatal because at that moment, 200 meters away, an Argentine automatic weapon of some guy and several other weapons opened up towards us and in that kind of initial explosion that was almost kind of an ambush, actually three of us were hit.

I saw the person in front of me do a pirouette as he had been hit in the head and the force literally spun him around. like a spin and there was a crunch behind me and someone had been hit behind me and everything seemed to be in slow motion, in fact it was just my brain thinking quite a bit faster, but as I turned to run towards the nearest cover, suddenly I felt something like a huge love hammer hit my legs and the rounds marker was like, you know, it's the scarlet rods around me and I noticed it with my right leg, especially with both legs, but especially my leg right was very stiff. already and there was a sort of brief burning sensation through the muscle of my right arm.

I lowered my right hand to touch my leg and two of my fingers went in up to the knuckles and at that moment I realized that I had actually been. I hit the orderlies, they found it very difficult to enter us, finally they did and began to We got off and the next thing I knew I was a short distance from my stretcher and everything was completely silent. I never heard the explosion. or something, if I was unconscious for a short time, I don't know, I turned around and the orderlies were basically in pieces, at least one of them was completely blown to pieces, it was really miserable, I just couldn't believe it.

As the British advanced towards Stanley, the Argentine dead were scattered across the battlefield, burying them was a gruesome task. The first car passed him. He had this whole partridge face here he's totally lost and he had wounds on the upper part of his chest. total gives name tags and while he was doing it he was talking about what was good yeah right I'm just going to undo his name tags and yeah ah here they come yeah no because he was trying to talk to the guys about what he was doing. Obviously he was just trying to get his mind off of this because you know you'd find him a wallet and a big picture of them with his wife and his kids and I looked like a terrible liar.

It could have been my line there, everyone we met was all twisted, you could see agony you know these guys are billions when they died I mean their legs were all twisted their arms and then we found an Argentine officer who had been in the udder a wound in the belly I don't remember if Annan and now they call I said: "I'll call live and take a look at this guy and one more and he was kind of This. He spoke to me in English and he was telling me, You know, that wife-eating thing, you know why we were fighting." I feel bad for the bodies, you know the state of them and everything, and now the way we throw them in a hole, yeah, they just kiss the guy who got hurt.

You know, I wished Nate that he. He had never spoken English as you know it. If he died, can we stop them? It would still be four years to cry over a few dead people, because obviously you can't cry, so you know you have a job to do and you do it. I still feel that even now I feel them do you know why I'm crying or what I'm afraid I just don't see them enemy so I na nak awareness reggae yes, we realized that there was no point in continuing we don't have any more cards to play raluchi de a penis At Vsauce our artillery had been reduced to about 10 or 12 guns according to the radio director we had no support from L it was not English the British were only from our programs bombarding us with our rifles they were also our own our exhausted men, they had fought hard and had lost much of their equipment, if we continued, we would have simply been wasting lives, that is the bottom line.

I came to the revolution, so I discussed it with the high command before accepting the British offer of a ceasefire and getting started. of negotiations resolved via acceptance if the fire fishy opa the English amassed Raz pro Haren the conversation echo reckon peasant teeth in some very big waha to look it really hurts we have been defeated and I felt defeated what really remained etched in my mind was seeing the Union Jack flying after surrendering, that was a hard blow. I was so angry and frustrated that I burst into tears. I remember thinking about everything that had happened, the hunger and the cold loneliness, the death of so many of my friends and then everything there was. the British flag flying above us was unbearable as I walked around the corner and indeed Stanley came into view.

I thought it was worth it, it reeked of dirty and just wasn't my idea of ​​what Stanley was going to be. The whole place was chaos with weapons and ammunition lying around your corpse, every other building seemed to have a red cross on it and there was an unmistakable smell of death and finally we went to the top floor of a small house that we commandeered and shared with one of your bitch companies and during the night we turned one of our radios on to the BBC World Service and learned of the BBC surrender 8,000 miles away that was taking place in a building 800 yards from where I was standing.

Sitting there and we all felt a huge sense of relief and my main feeling was that they weren't going to have to die younger, it wasn't like winning a football match you know, it was just a normal feeling of relief that it was all over. We were all going home, we sailed early that morning, everywhere we looked at the little boats full of people to cheer us up and it was a brilliant feeling really because you know it makes it seem worth it, you just got angry, you felt very bitter. people coming back, but as individuals, just because everyone had come back and Frank hadn't on the surface, it's not much of a fuss.

His return in many ways was quite mild as a personal experience for many of us. a feeling that we did not want to leave the environment in which we had spent so much time with our own comrades among our friends, people we knew and enter a world that was full of people who did not know what we had been through and who perhaps were putting the wrong connotation or what had happened, who perhaps were reveling in the fact of victory for the wrong reason and, in fact, I somehow told some of the Luxans who were in the bow of that ship among all the recruits who returned to Buenos Aires found. that life seemed to continue the same as before the war Tanaka I will eat it boy as human as it is strange to us I don't know what I remember we went out to this bar and I walked with the Ford knife well, this can' It won't be a very happy place after everything what's going on.

I went out to the bar and ordered a beer when I looked around and the place was full of happy faces, everyone was having a good time celebrating like we had just won the world. Cup you think nothing happened in Argentina no episode was aired I can enough cantina never pasinetta too soon a Supra Walter and I wondered how many parents I killed what was the point I did all this in my culture what is my country are you my country ago That you all laugh and dance and have a good time or suffer, it's not resentment, I'm not asking for any reward, all I'm saying is, look, we risked our lives at 19, many of them didn't come back, but we, what are we supposed to do now, are we going to win?

I guess I asked to go to Southie and drive along the boardwalk before we finally got back to our house as I drove along the front there people were spending their summer vacation they were eating their ice cream they were sitting on their lounge chairs and generally hanging out like it was the time of day having fun and I felt like I wanted to pick them up and shake them and say look, there's a war going on, people are getting murdered and somehow I felt for them that war was something that happened at 8 o'clock. in the morning when they picked up the newspaper or turned on the radio or at 9 at night when the news was on television, I think that during the first few days I couldn't, I didn't like it when all those unknown young people waving flags showed up and said something stupid as if you killed someone you know or they would go on their backs and buy the points and You'd take it a bit, yeah, I was down there and all that, but you never tell them what it was like, you just tell them, basically, what the British public is.

Now I don't know the best time. The whole thing is a tragedy it's a war it's a dirty, dirty, miserable business and we should never allow ourselves to have a war we the British people are proud of what has been done, proud of these heroic pages of our island's hi

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, proud to be Here today to greet the task force who turned out to be British, we went to fight because they had invaded British territory. Really, it's all a matter of pride. I think Britain had to have that pride in itself or, as a nation, we would have been what we are now.

They had to make it like the price and my family paid no one will ever know exactly what prize we made maybe it was worth it for the bread and love