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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