Over the Falkland Islands in May 1982 - an aerial duel was unfolding. The British pilots needed to protect their carrier, her escorts and their landing force from marauding Argentine strike aircraft, ...
Chile also displayed military troops along the border with Patagonia to distract our own war effort ... support for the UK and when Argentina invaded the Falklands they supplied us with most ...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin agreed to help Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War as revenge for Britain ... Israel armed Argentina’s military dictatorship with air-to-air missiles ...
Gustavo Melella, Governor of the province of Tierra del Fuego, which, according to Argentina ... He also described the exercises as “war games” and a threat to regional peace, due to which ...
Whatever your opinion on the moral rights and wrongs of the Falklands War, it is inescapably one of the most significant historical events of the 1980s. When Argentinian dictator General Galtieri ...
An undeclared war broke out between Britain and Argentina over two ... It came after Argentina's military junta ordered its army to seize the Falklands, which the country continues to call the ...
Currently, the graves - one of which contains multiple bodies - say only: "Argentine Soldier Known Only By God". A total of 649 Argentines, and 255 British troops, died during the Falklands War in ...
a military man with close ties to the junta, the one that ran the war. He was asked at once about the discrepancy between the British and the Argentine reports of the Falklands war and where ...
Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship from 1976 to ... held an event to recognize the Jewish veterans of the Falklands/Malvinas War. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for ...
May 2 marks the fortieth anniversary of the first and only sinking of a warship by a nuclear submarine. By successfully sinking the Armada de la República Argentina’s (ARA) light... Britain’s ...
How the BBC reported the 1982 Falklands Conflict ... were credited with shortening the war and saving hundreds of lives, civilian and military, by persuading Argentine commanders of the futility ...