Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before the offensive began, the Argentine air force had done its determined best to keep the British penned up in their expanding bridgehead. As the Port San Carlos landing area grew from a toehold on a rocky shore into a substantial area, Argentine pilots flew sortie after sortie against the warships and supply vessels that moved through narrow Falkland Sound, and the results at times were devastating for Britain's warships. As they have all along, the claims from London and Buenos Aires varied greatly about the course of the spectacular war of attrition offshore. Britain reported the loss...
...last week's diplomatic maneuvering was no more than a side issue compared to the vicious immediacy of the fighting. By choosing to invade Port San Carlos on the narrow Falkland Sound, the British had taken a considerable risk. Only 15 miles wide near Port San Carlos, the waterway gave the British fleet little maneuvering room against air attack. That problem was compounded by the fundamental weakness of the task force: its lack of adequate air cover and of an early-warning system like the U.S. AWACS aircraft. With only 36 Harrier jets aboard the armada's aircraft carriers, Hermes...
...affairs of the islands would be run not by any international body but by Rex Hunt, who would be returned to his post as governor. The British also intend to keep a garrison, initially of about 3,000 troops, on the Falklands indefinitely and to lengthen the runway at Port Stanley so that it could handle high-speed, longer-range jets such as Phantom multirole fighters and Buccaneer strike aircraft. If the need ever arose, these planes could carry out attacks on the Argentine mainland...
...British public about the war. The excitement, tinged with jingoism, of the early days of the conflict was gone; the destruction of four warships of the Royal Navy was a jolt. Telegrams of sympathy from across Britain, and from Canada, Australia and the U.S., poured into Plymouth, home port of the Ardent and the Antelope. Lord Mayor Reg Scott said his city's mood was one of "grief tempered with determination...
...fighting increased on the ground last week and the British marched toward Port Stanley, the guns were doing all the talking...