Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British radar failed to spot the low-flying Argentines. The Rapier surface-to-air missiles that British ground forces had used with great success at the Port San Carlos beachhead were already ashore at Fitzroy, but they had not yet been set up on hillsides overlooking the estuary. Although both ships would have been unloaded in another hour or so, at the time of the attack the Sir Galahad was still packed with most of its full complement of 68 crewmen and, according to some accounts, as many as 500 troops waiting to go ashore. Those on board...
...hours later, Mirages attacked and sank a small British landing craft in Choiseul Sound; London said that four men died and two were wounded. Another wave of Argentine aircraft swept toward the Port San Carlos beachhead. They hit the 2,800-ton frigate H.M.S. Plymouth, one of the older vessels of its type in the 40-ship British task force. The Argentines claimed that the Plymouth exploded, but the British Defense Ministry insisted that while the ship had been damaged, it was still in service. According to the British, five men were wounded. The British said they shot down seven...
...four-engine aircraft, probably a C130. Bombs were pushed out of the aircraft cargo door; one hit the Hercules but failed to explode on board. None of the 29 crewmen was injured. According to the British Defense Ministry, the ship was ordered by radio to head for an Argentine port within 15 minutes or face attack. Argentina denied any knowledge of the incident, but on June 2 an Argentine C-130 made a similar attack on a British oil tanker within the 200-mile zone, causing little damage...
News of Argentina's aerial successes lifted the gray mood that had enveloped Buenos Aires when a humiliating defeat at Port Stanley had seemed inevitable. Blared a headline in the daily newspaper Convictión: LONDON ADMITS GETTING A BEATING. Under the eyes of a beaming President Galtieri, thousands of chanting, banner-waving Argentines gathered in the central Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to celebrate Malvinas Day, the anniversary of the appointment of the first Argentine governor of the contested islands known in Spanish as Las Malvinas. As Galtieri waved his hat in salute, the crowd chanted...
...attack was launched on Port Stanley last weekend, it became possible that a complete British victory was at hand. But the consequence of that for Thatcher was likely to be an even more demanding challenge. As London's respected Economist noted, Thatcher's allies, including the U.S., "will be looking for certain civil greatness from Britain to match its military prowess." That must eventually mean a willingness to discuss with anyone what British soldiers are now dying to defend: guaranteed security for the Falklands, a measure of self-determination for an isolated and declining Falklands population...