On this day in 1982: Argentine forces invade Falkland Island

On this day in 1982: Argentine forces invade Falkland Islands, entering capital Port Stanley and forcing Governor Rex Hunt to surrender.

So it began.

My Family and myself would like to Thank All Who Have Served and are Serving.

To every brave serviceman we salute you all

Every Man and Emperor.

RIP to the Fallen.

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Lost a few friends on that mission and some well under 20 years of age

My heart and respect goes out to all those who serve with credit in any battle and for any service

RIP all those who didn't come home...

Lost a few friends on that mission and some well under 20 years of age

My heart and respect goes out to all those who serve with credit in any battle and for any service

RIP all those who didn't come home...

Chris completely agree, these are the heroes that we should take the knee for. RIP.

Lost a few friends on that mission and some well under 20 years of age

My heart and respect goes out to all those who serve with credit in any battle and for any service

RIP all those who didn't come home...

Chris completely agree, these are the heroes that we should take the knee for. RIP.

Agreed Roger

We had just completed a 3 month NATO exercise in the Med (Ocean Safari) and Docked in Gib with 27 other British Warships and Auxiliary's, all expecting our next port was UK for a bit of R & R or Leave But instead at 2am we were awoken with all ships steaming up ready to leave.

Word soon Got around on Board that we were NOT going Back to UK but straight to the Falkland Islands - Most saying "wheres the Falklands? Scotland? !!

It certainly turned into a frightening experience and Lost a few People I knew.

Thankfully for the mercy of God we were spared.

God bless all those who have fought and paid the ultimate price and those who fought in all conflicts.

Rule Britannia, God Save the Queen.

What a shithole it is as well.

I have been twice and last time I was there for all the commemorative events. I went to one at Goose Green. The chap who accompanied me worked in the Met down there. As we arrived he was very quiet. It was the first time he had been there since he was on one of the ships part of the liberation force.

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The yanks warned Thatcher that there was a build of Argentinian troops. She ignored it and a lot of our serviceman paid the price of death and horrendous injuries.

At the time when war was declared I was just about to start my apprentice training with the military. We were told our training was on hold as we were going down to the Falklands to carry the mortar bombs for the SAS. it was a time when we believed anything told to us.

Lost a few friends on that mission and some well under 20 years of age

My heart and respect goes out to all those who serve with credit in any battle and for any service

RIP all those who didn't come home...

Chris completely agree, these are the heroes that we should take the knee for. RIP.

Agreed Roger

Absolutely, gents

It's these people that give the ne'er-do-wells the 'free speech' platform to spout their disruptive bile....

[quote="stickywicket"]The yanks warned Thatcher that there was a build of Argentinian troops. She ignored it and a lot of our serviceman paid the price of death and horrendous injuries.[/qu


what build up of troops ?

The yanks warned Thatcher that there was a build of Argentinian troops. She ignored it and a lot of our serviceman paid the price of death and horrendous injuries.[/qu


what build up of troops ?

They could build up troops, put them on ships, get them across the short distance before we could ever have responded. I’m not sure there was ever the Argies are going to attack from America.

It was the fact it was defended by only 75 marines.

It isn’t now. The argies would have no chance of taking the Falklands now.

The yanks warned Thatcher that there was a build of Argentinian troops. She ignored it and a lot of our serviceman paid the price of death and horrendous injuries.[/qu


what build up of troops ?

They could build up troops, put them on ships, get them across the short distance before we could ever have responded. I’m not sure there was ever the Argies are going to attack from America.

It was the fact it was defended by only 75 marines.

It isn’t now. The argies would have no chance of taking the Falklands now.

his post was to make a false political point again. there was not some big build up of troops on a border the islands are hundreds of miles away from the mainland invaded by hundreds without much in the way heavy armour not 10s of thousands and they embarked from a number of different places..{ the d day landings it wasnt } .because as you say those defending it amounted to a few dozen marines and a few locals... what build up there was happened on the islands after they had been taken and in the period { 3 or 4 weeks } where the task force was on its way and it became obvious we intended taking them back by force { which Argentina did not foresee }
no idea what goes through his mind when he says this stuff...

22/03/2013
Six months before the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British intelligence looked at the situation and – not for the last time – made a wrong call. “The Argentine government would prefer to pursue their sovereignty claim by peaceful means,” they reported.

That unhelpful advice from the spooks is one of many revelations in the latest batch of Margaret Thatcher’s private papers, released today, which also shed light on the political turmoil that the invasion created among Conservative MPs and the contradictory advice given to Mrs Thatcher – ranging from a demand for blood to be split, to a suggestion that the islanders should be generously bribed to accept Argentinian rule.


Top brass were happy to hear that they need not fear a military invasion of the islands, because they worried that they would not be able to get them back by force. “Such a deployment would be very expensive,” a secret memo from the defence chiefs warned in September 1981. “Their geographical advantage and the relative sophistication of their armed forces would put our own task group at a serious disadvantage.”

In January 1982, Mrs Thatcher wrote to the Tory MP Richard Needham, defending the decision to scrap the only British warship in the vicinity of the Falklands, HMS Endurance. The government needed to save money.


Three months later, with Endurance in the wrong place and the Falklands under Argentine occupation, her government was plunged into what contemporaries saw as the worst overseas crisis since the loss of the Suez Canal.

22/03/2013
Six months before the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British intelligence looked at the situation and – not for the last time – made a wrong call. “The Argentine government would prefer to pursue their sovereignty claim by peaceful means,” they reported.

That unhelpful advice from the spooks is one of many revelations in the latest batch of Margaret Thatcher’s private papers, released today, which also shed light on the political turmoil that the invasion created among Conservative MPs and the contradictory advice given to Mrs Thatcher – ranging from a demand for blood to be split, to a suggestion that the islanders should be generously bribed to accept Argentinian rule.


Top brass were happy to hear that they need not fear a military invasion of the islands, because they worried that they would not be able to get them back by force. “Such a deployment would be very expensive,” a secret memo from the defence chiefs warned in September 1981. “Their geographical advantage and the relative sophistication of their armed forces would put our own task group at a serious disadvantage.”

In January 1982, Mrs Thatcher wrote to the Tory MP Richard Needham, defending the decision to scrap the only British warship in the vicinity of the Falklands, HMS Endurance. The government needed to save money.


Three months later, with Endurance in the wrong place and the Falklands under Argentine occupation, her government was plunged into what contemporaries saw as the worst overseas crisis since the loss of the Suez Canal.

so in a nut shell your earlier post about troop build ups was an absolute load of rubbish

22/03/2013
Six months before the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British intelligence looked at the situation and – not for the last time – made a wrong call. “The Argentine government would prefer to pursue their sovereignty claim by peaceful means,” they reported.

That unhelpful advice from the spooks is one of many revelations in the latest batch of Margaret Thatcher’s private papers, released today, which also shed light on the political turmoil that the invasion created among Conservative MPs and the contradictory advice given to Mrs Thatcher – ranging from a demand for blood to be split, to a suggestion that the islanders should be generously bribed to accept Argentinian rule.


Top brass were happy to hear that they need not fear a military invasion of the islands, because they worried that they would not be able to get them back by force. “Such a deployment would be very expensive,” a secret memo from the defence chiefs warned in September 1981. “Their geographical advantage and the relative sophistication of their armed forces would put our own task group at a serious disadvantage.”

In January 1982, Mrs Thatcher wrote to the Tory MP Richard Needham, defending the decision to scrap the only British warship in the vicinity of the Falklands, HMS Endurance. The government needed to save money.


Three months later, with Endurance in the wrong place and the Falklands under Argentine occupation, her government was plunged into what contemporaries saw as the worst overseas crisis since the loss of the Suez Canal.

so in a nut shell your earlier post about troop build ups was an absolute load of rubbish

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If you say so.

22/03/2013
Six months before the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British intelligence looked at the situation and – not for the last time – made a wrong call. “The Argentine government would prefer to pursue their sovereignty claim by peaceful means,” they reported.

That unhelpful advice from the spooks is one of many revelations in the latest batch of Margaret Thatcher’s private papers, released today, which also shed light on the political turmoil that the invasion created among Conservative MPs and the contradictory advice given to Mrs Thatcher – ranging from a demand for blood to be split, to a suggestion that the islanders should be generously bribed to accept Argentinian rule.


Top brass were happy to hear that they need not fear a military invasion of the islands, because they worried that they would not be able to get them back by force. “Such a deployment would be very expensive,” a secret memo from the defence chiefs warned in September 1981. “Their geographical advantage and the relative sophistication of their armed forces would put our own task group at a serious disadvantage.”

In January 1982, Mrs Thatcher wrote to the Tory MP Richard Needham, defending the decision to scrap the only British warship in the vicinity of the Falklands, HMS Endurance. The government needed to save money.


Three months later, with Endurance in the wrong place and the Falklands under Argentine occupation, her government was plunged into what contemporaries saw as the worst overseas crisis since the loss of the Suez Canal.

so in a nut shell your earlier post about troop build ups was an absolute load of rubbish

.
If you say so.

its historical fact