Today marks the anniversary of #GooseGreen , the first and the longest land battle of the #FalklandsWar .

Lt. Col' H' Jones VC commanded @2PARA_HQin the Falklands War and died in the Battle of Goose Green.

Last year, his son described the loss👇
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An afternoon spent reflecting 🖤

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The sole RAF CH-47 Chinook during the Falklands Conflict, Bravo November managed to move 2 Para from Goose Green to Fitzroy to seize the settlement. Carried in 2 lifts, the 1st with 81 paratroopers, followed by a second load of 'only' 75.
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#ships #OTD #FalklandsWar - 41 years ago already... May 2, 1982 - #RoyalNavy nuclear submarine Conqueror torpedoes and sinks Argentina's 12,240-ton General Belgrano (ex-USS Phoenix, a Brooklyn-class light cruiser and veteran of Pearl Harbor). 323 killed.

#otd 4 May 1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

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Happy Birthday Bro. Missed every day. 67 .... you were never meant to grow old 💔 #FalklandsWar #FromTheSeaFreedom

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#otd 21 May 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.

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Staff Sergeant Nick Van der Bijl (Intelligence Section, Headquarters and Signal Squadron, 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines) eats a meal in his slit trench at Port San Carlos. #Falklandswar

#OnThisDay The Falklands War (2nd April - 14th June 1982) - Lest We Forget #LestWeForget #FalklandsWar

A boy was out for a hike in a swamp, when he stumbled upon something that’d been buried for decades. After getting people to help dig, they uncovered a WWII tank. But what was even more surprising was what was inside of it.

11/25 It appears that the German Leopard tanks will run into issues. The delivery might be delayed & they are unlikely to deliver a decisive impact on the battlefield. The entire experience is likely to be frustrating for the Ukrainian army and it will slow them down to a crawl.

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#ships #OTD #FalklandsWar - On May 4, 1982, Argentina got a good measure of revenge by using a single missile to critically wound the Royal Navy's Type 42 class D-80 Sheffield, which sank on May 10, 1982. #Exocet became part of our vocabulary. #1980s

Lieutenant Commander Dante Camilette of the Argentine Marines under arrest, 27 May 1982. He had been found observing British warship movements from a concealed position above San Carlos Water. #falklandswar #royalmarines

3rd June 1982:
New York Times advises it's readers to 'Weep Not for the Americas'

The support for Argentina in Latin America is as wide as the River Plate, but only a centimeter deep. Cheers for the junta are heard only from : Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama.
#FalklandsWar

Visited the Falklands war memorial on Plymouth Hoe at the weekend after taking my old Skipper's widow for lunch. Poignant and thought provoking looking out to sea thinking of that time 41 years ago. #FalklandsWar

Fleet Cover,

painting finished

#art #painting #aviation #aviation art #rn #nas #royalnavy #pilot #falklands #hmshermes #seaharrier #899squadron #harrier #baesystems #flynavy #fleetairarm #navy #warship #militaryhistory #hermes #falklands #falklands war #raf #royalairforce

#OTD #History #FalklandsWar - May 25, 1982, Argentina hits HMS Coventry and HMS Broadsword. First two A-4s attacked ↙️ with one 1,000 lb bomb each. One hit HMS Broadsword. Two more A-4s attacked with 250 lb bombs. Three hit Coventry; two exploded. 1/

KimCasey with the 'Pebble Island ' whiskey from 258 Commemorative whisky co ltd in memory of her Brother Kevin 'Ben' Casey #846squadron the first casualty of the #FalklandsWar , holding a picture of Casey Cove on Pebble Island. #RIPBro

❤️ These gentle giants once played a crucial role throughout wars and in agriculture!

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A look back to May of 1982 during the #falklandswar when #argentina mounted bomb racks on C-130’s and bombed ships in the Atlantic, unsuccessfully. #lockheed #c130 #c10legacy #aviationsafari #aviationpreservation #boneyardsafari #c130 bomber

Commander ‘Sharkey’ Ward DSC AFC #FalklandsWar

Another ‘useless white male pilot’ but thankfully Royal Navy where there is no evidence of discrimination.

'News of Defeat Stuns Argentines' May 31, 1982
#History #OTD #FalklandsWar
#1980s