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Still, the failure to attack sooner cost Britain's fighting men dearly. With no warning, Argentina's air force roared across the skies southwest of Port Stanley last week to deal the British their worst casualties of the campaign. Demolished on that disastrous Tuesday were two landing ships, the Sir Galahad and the Sir Tristram, carrying members of the Fifth Infantry Brigade who were establishing a second British beachhead only 17 miles from Port Stanley. That brought to seven the total of major British ships lost since a Royal Navy task force reached the wintry South Atlantic archipelago...
...Queen Elizabeth II, whose second son, Prince Andrew, is a helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor Castle for President Ronald Reagan as the occasion, she personally denounced "naked aggression" in the Falklands. In the port of Southampton, meanwhile, cheering Britons gave a rapturous welcome to her namesake, the Cunard luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, returning safely from the Falklands with 629 injured and wounded, plus crewmen from the lost British ships...
...Buenos Aires, the military junta led by President Leopoldo Galtieri defiantly portrayed Argentina as the ultimate win ner of the conflict despite the precarious position of the embattled garrison at Port Stanley. Declared Galtieri: "We will fight for weeks, months or years, but we will never give up sovereignty over the is lands." He seemed to be warning that even if his soldiers were eventually driven off the Falklands, he would wage a long-term war of attrition against the British...
...change of tempo in the the war following stood in sharp contrast to the speed of British successes following the landing of 5,000 Royal Marine commandos and Parachute Regiment troops near Port San Carlos. Slogging across the boggy ground, they had captured 1,600 Argentine troops near the settlement of Goose Green (see map). Then, in a combination of rapid marches and bold helicopter assaults, they secured the commanding height of Mount Kent, overlooking Port Stanley. Encountering almost no Argentine resistance, they set up forward observation posts on hills known as the Two Sisters, only six miles from...
With the high ground under their control, the British immediately began to rain artillery fire down on the 7,500 Argentine troops, which were entrenched in a defensive horseshoe around Port Stanley. Harrier vertical-takeoff jets pounded the area with 600-lb. cluster bombs, while 4.5-in. guns on Royal Navy frigates and destroyers added their drumbeat of fire. As the week began, the dense, rain-filled clouds that shrouded Port Stanley seemed to be the only barrier to a full-scale attack. But Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward and Major General John Jeremy Moore, the two commanders to whom...