Word: airfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boggy ground, the crack British troops confronted an Argentine garrison once estimated at about 600. There were reports of sharp fighting, and then the British Defense Ministry tersely announced that Her Majesty's troops had captured both Darwin and the neighboring settlement of Goose Green, site of an important airfield. Said Defense Ministry Spokesman Ian McDonald: "The Argentines suffered casualties, and some prisoners were taken." British casualties, said McDonald, were light...
British ships edging within 14 miles of the Falklands coast continued last week to shell the Port Stanley area and the airfield, which London said was "severely cratered." But the Argentines displayed a film showing C-130 Hercules aircraft taking off from the airstrip. The landing strip may have been useless for fighter aircraft, but it was apparently still accessible to the versatile transports...
...been to enforce a total air and sea blockade within 200 miles of the islands. In a daring, long-distance raid on May 1, a delta-winged Vulcan bomber blasted the airstrip near the Falklands' tiny capital, Port Stanley. Flights of carrier-based Sea Harrier jets pounded the airfield with more bombs and also attacked a second, grassy airstrip 50 miles away, near the settlement of Goose Green. A British Sea King helicopter reportedly launched a strafing attack near the settlement of Port Darwin. British warships pulled close to the islands to add their gunfire to the punishing...
...weapons for the first time. The 610-lb. BL 755 cluster bomb destroys armored and thin-skinned targets and mines the area with smaller bombs timed to go off at varying intervals. In addition, it is suspected, though not confirmed, that the Vulcan bombers that struck Port Stanley airfield may have used the new JP233 airfield attack bomb. The result of a collaboration between British and U.S. firms, the JP233 craters enemy runways by penetrating the concrete before exploding, causing the surface to lift and fracture over a wide area. The bomb also seeds the territory with delayed-action antipersonnel...
...Gordon Sauter: "Viewers have become accustomed to not just instant but instantaneous coverage. And they, like our TV news people, are frustrated because it's just not available." Occasionally the British shipboard correspondents were heard on TV describing some action like the bombing of the Port Stanley airfield, but the only illustration the networks could provide was a photo of the man who was speaking. It was almost as if the world were back in 1932, when people at home sat around ancient Atwater Kent radios to hear the news...