Trail: Floodlights, BBC2 broadcastnow.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from broadcastnow.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Michael Shrimpton: Falklands 40 – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services veteranstoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from veteranstoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The visiting Argentine reporter Hugo Alconada Mon who spent time in the Falkland Islands reporting for the Buenos Aires daily La Nacion, on the 40th anniversary of the April 2nd Argentine military invasion and occupation of the Falklands, has included a story on an Argentine army officer.
during the first week in april. the navy had some good fortune, 18 warships were already out say, involved in an exercise based in gibraltar. they were under the command of admiral sandy woodward. in the year before he died, we chatted about what had happened at his home in west sussex. days down there earlier than we would have been. john galway, a radio operator was on one of the ships in his task force. he and his friends on hms sheffield were looking forward to sailing back to portsmouth after six months away from home. as we were going along, there were news stories about scrap metal merchants landing on south georgia and once we got to gibraltar, they got a bit stronger and stronger and we thought something was going to happen. a0 years ago it was not just the ships being prepared for war, also getting