Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, British Royal Marine commandos, backed by 7.8-ton Scorpion tanks, which move with relative ease through swampy areas, had begun their own breakout from the beachhead. Traveling eastward from Port San Carlos, they were moving along roads that were no more than rutted tracks toward the Falklands capital of Port Stanley, 50 miles away. Their aim: to launch an attack on some 7,500 troops dug in around the settlement, the bulk of the force that precipitated the South Atlantic crisis with their own invasion of the bleak islands on April...
...abandoned. The Conveyor was hit by the same type of Exocet missile that sank the British destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield four weeks ago. Including another frigate, H.M.S. Ardent, sunk on May 22, Britain said it had lost five ships in the struggle to regain the islands, but Argentina claimed Royal Navy losses were higher than that...
...frigate's midsection, where it failed to detonate. The ship limped slowly up the Bay of San Carlos, giving off smoke, and British bomb-disposal experts were sent aboard to see if they could defuse the bomb. The main assignment fell to Staff Sergeant James Prescott, 37, of the Royal Engineers. "One twitch, Dad, and you're dead," he had once told his father about his work. The bomb exploded and he died instantly...
...bolster its forces in the South Atlantic, Britain had to slash its commitment to NATO. Between one-half and two-thirds of the Royal Navy's operational warships are now in the task force, leaving a large gap in North Atlantic defenses. Normally, the British are responsible for 70% of NATO'S antisubmarine defenses in the eastern Atlantic zone, particularly between Iceland, Greenland and the Danish Faeroe Islands. The U.S. Navy has now taken over those responsibilities, leading U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Thomas Hayward to worry: "We are pushing the Navy as hard as you can push...
...losses in the Falkland Islands sobered the 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...