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Argentine Harriers?!
Hia all
Just found this photo in a recent magazine. Supposedly, it was taken in 1969, and the carrier is the... 25 de Mayo!!! Wouldn't *that* be a nice "what if"?... |
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Argentine Harriers?!
News wrote:
Hia all Just found this photo in a recent magazine. Supposedly, it was taken in 1969, and the carrier is the... 25 de Mayo!!! Wouldn't *that* be a nice "what if"?... [Image] right up until the RN subs sank the carrier along with the cruiser. redc1c4, it's not like Argentina had a CVBG w*rked up..... %-) -- "Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear considerable watching." Army Officer's Guide |
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Argentine Harriers?!
right up until the RN subs sank the carrier along with the cruiser. redc1c4, it's not like Argentina had a CVBG w*rked up..... %-) True... but still... |
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Argentine Harriers?!
Argentina lost the Falklands War, for a number of reasons, whether or not
they had Harriers or F14 Tomcats, the outcome would have been the same... The only difference would have been a hell of a lot more dead on both sides. Quite a few have speculated about it, but there is little doubt in anyone's mind about what the out come would have been.... Andrew "News" wrote in message ... Hia all Just found this photo in a recent magazine. Supposedly, it was taken in 1969, and the carrier is the... 25 de Mayo!!! Wouldn't *that* be a nice "what if"?... |
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Argentine Harriers?! - bravo-november.jpg (1/1) [178K]
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 6:00:02 +0100, Andrew-S wrote
(in message ) : Quite a few have speculated about it, but there is little doubt in anyone's mind about what the out come would have been.... Not quite. Admiral Woodward was the commander of the UK's Task Force and he has said that it was: "a lot closer run than many would care to believe" and "We were on our last legs...If they had been able to hold on another week it might have been a different story". http://www.guardian.co.uk/falklands/...678047,00.html Another person who has a doubt or two is Bernard Ingham, Thatcher's press secretary at the time. Echoing Woodward (and the Duke of Wellington), Ingham has written of the war that: "it was a close run thing". http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/View...leID=2184237&S ectionID=97 Picture shows the only Chinook available to UK forces undergoing maintenance during the Falklands War. The three other Chinooks sent down were lost when the container ship Atlantic Conveyor was sunk by an Exocet on 25 May 1982. -- |
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