On THIS VERY day in 1982

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The Argentinians invaded the Falkland Islands which started the war.

 

 

Message to the Argies - Your steaks are nice but hands off our Islands!! (and oil... ahem)

 

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A tragic series of events which cost a lot of lives on both sides.

 

Sadly, Kirchner doesn't seem to have learnt any lessons from it.

[Mk2Jo]

I remember it well.

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I remember this front page like it was yesterday. Having served in the RN myself, I can feel only sympathy for the plight of those 323 young Argentine men in the South Atlantic.

 

To this day ARA Belgrano remains the only warship to be suck in anger by a nuclear submarine