British soldier David Richardson, who found the fragments of a downed Argentine Air Force Dagger downed by a British Harrier during the 1982 Falklands War, has donated the items to be exhibited at a museum in the province of Córdoba, Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom, Javier Figueroa announced.
In the end, the Argentine carrier got away.
Key point: The British won the war and sunk an Argentine battleship. However, Argentina could have also lost a carrier.
On the afternoon of April 30, 1982, the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Margret Thatcher transmitted a message to three Royal Navy submarines in the South Atlantic designating the carrier
Veinticino de Mayo a priority target to be hunted down and destroyed.
The Argentine carrier ironically, of British origin posed an unpredictable threat to the Royal Navy taskforce commencing amphibious operations to retake the disputed Falkland Islands following their seizure by Argentinian troops on April 2, 1982.