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Programa 32 - 9 de Agosto 2018 (Malvinas Su Historia". Archived from the original on 20 August 2018 . Retrieved 19 August 2018.

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Someone (can't remember now who) described that war as akin to "two bald men fighting over a comb". Major Argue's company ceased firing and devoted all their efforts to a withdrawal from 'Fly Half' due to terrible situation. Peter Harclerode, a noted British historian of the Parachute Regiment, went on record, saying that: Most of us had adjusted to what we'd been landed in, we'd adjusted to the war. But some boys [identified in the book "Two Sides of Hell/Los Dos Lados Del Infierno"] were still very depressed and, in many cases, were getting worse all the time. Of course, we were very fed up with wearing the same clothes for so many days, going without a shower, being so cold, eating badly. It was too many things together, quite apart from our natural fear of the war, the shelling and all that. But I think some of us were adapting better than others. There were kids who were very worried, and I tried to buoy them up a bit. 'Don't worry,' I told them. 'Nothing will happen, we're safe here. 'Don't you see they could never get right up here? There's one thousand of us; if they try to climb, we'll see them, we'll shoot the shit out of them." [44]

a b Hugh Bicheno, Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War, p. 213, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006 He was an Army commando who had fought against the People's Revolutionary Army in Tucuman province during the 'Dirty War'. Thoroughly professional and a dedicated soldier, he expected high standards and exercised rigid but fair discipline. It was to Jaimet that Brigadier-General Jofre turned to when he wanted a heli-borne company. " 5th Infantry Brigade in the Falklands 1982, Nicholas Van der Bijl, David Aldea, p.161, Leo Cooper, 2003 Similarly, the prisoner shooting story has been inflated from one frightened conscript into several officers shot (or thrown) off a cliff: in fact, he was stood in front of the pit where the Argentine dead were temporarily buried and shot into it by Sturge with a captured .45 pistol.

For Mount Longdon | A Falklands War Special The Battle For Mount Longdon | A Falklands War Special

This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. Private Fabián Passaro of B Company served on Mount Longdon with Baldini's 1st Platoon and remembers life at the time: The Argentine forces on Mount Longdon were recalled reservists with a year of military training. Part of this training saw the 7th Regiment undertake major all-arms collective training in central Argentina alongside the 3rd and 6th Infantry Regiments of the 10th Brigade. [12] The young RI 7 soldiers were not going to abandon their positions easily and several were prepared to hold their ground. They possessed fully automatic FN FAL rifles, FAP light machine guns and PAMS sub-machine guns; these fully-automatic weapons delivered more firepower than the similar but semi-automatic British L1A1 rifles (SLR). They were also equipped with FN MAG 7.62mm general purpose machine guns, which were almost identical to those of the British. politically motivated…”: I could give you several sources (including british) saying that it was politically motivated but, as I said in my previous post, I don’t think I’m going to change your mind.Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present, Volume 1, David Marley, p.1076, ABC-CLIO, 28 February 2008 a b c d e "Malvinas: 57 días a sopa". Archived from the original on 19 January 2014 . Retrieved 18 January 2014. The story is larger but for us (argentinians) the first to invade the islands were the british in 1833. From 1833 to 1982 Argentina has tried by diplomatic ways to recover the islands, but then happened what we all know in 1982. Los protogonistas cuentan la historia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 18 January 2014. From my reading of it it has to do with the rights of neutral and Argentinian civilian vessels or aircraft entering the "zone". Not belegerant warships and support vessels.