20th Century Battlefields - Falklands War

I also had a shortwave radio at the time I couldn't get enough of it because it was KTLA Channel 5 News in California showed like 5 or 10 minutes of it maybe every night at the end of the broadcast and I was staying up to watch it I was totally fascinated by it. The Argentine argument that it was once part of Argentina it holds as much water as saying if england claim the 13 colonies saying it was once part of England when that's total BS I mean the Falcons yes maybe they were taken by the British against the Spanish maybe in the 17 hundreds but for them to use the excuse to invade it was only for that generals political ends and it backfired on him.

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I was with C co/2nd /19th SFG(A) WVANG at the time...
My Team Demo man and Medic were all living in the same complex We set Up an inverted 3 legged Long wire Rx antenna when we got home from school and work along with 2 Vietnam vets were glued to the "RT" set up a Big map on the wall and had a Situation room going ... It was Most interesting... The Company commander found out ... thru the grape Vine and started coming over on His way Home from work for "A situation and UpDate Status Brief...
the only place we could listen to the war and drink beer...

SFC George Smith - as a 19 year old in college and a history nut not knowing I was going to be a Major someday, I was checking out this war with a fervor I mean I was too young to remember much of the Vietnam War except for the end of it because my mom had been involved with civil Affairs calling her United Way Organization at to go to Camp Pendleton help out with the refugees. Articles were in Newsweek time LA Times was showing you know the fleet leaving Englandt. Did you guys cover the fact that there were a few Royal Marines that were on that st. George Island and all they had was a rocket-propelled grenade that shot at the Agrentine destroyer and then they surrendered I mean the British only had like less than a platoon size element in the Falklands and later they sent that whole Armada and I believe those two aircraft carriers were going to be given or sold to Australia because England was going broke and trying to get rid of the carriers. Good story how you made a situation room out of morbid curiosity following the war as it progressed. Interesting post thanks

Yes it was pretty interesting yeah it's amazing had the Argentine Air Force scored hits like they had in the past where they had their A4 Skyhawk flying too low on the deck so when they dropped their bombs the bombs didn't arm. England could have really been defeated you're right luckily there was poor leadership in the Argentine Army.

Very true and it also at that time it was called the Viceroy of La Plata which means it was a principality of the Spanish Empire so technically Spain would have more of a claim instead of Argentina. The same thing happened in the Lisa also known as British Honduras Guatemala wanted to invade it and the British sent a paratroop battalion and put it on the tarmac I happen to land there on the way back from Honduras in 1981 or two and I couldn't believe the aircraft guns Harrier jump-jet GP larges and soldiers I saw on the Airfield. I think it was before the Falklands War. Stupid excuse by political General to try to bring the nationalistic pride to try to overlook economic or political problems at home.