On 1 May 1982, British Task Force arrived in the vicinity of the Falklands / Malvinas. The famous Black Buck raid against Port Stanley airport by a single Vulcan bomber was quickly followed by twelve ...
Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed the "heroic command" of Falklands Task Force leader Sir John 'Sandy' Woodward, who has died aged 81. The Prime Minister said Admiral Woodward, the commander of ...
Three episodes from the Falklands campaign illustrate this logic clearly. ARA San Luis managed to slow down a superior British task force for weeks, despite firing only a handful of torpedoes. The ...
Twenty years ago, on 2 May 1982, the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk in a torpedo attack by the British submarine HMS Conqueror with the loss of three hundred and sixty-eight lives. It was ...