Falklands War
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The Falklands War was a ten-week war in the South Atlantic in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over possession of the Falkland Islands and its dependencies of South Georgia and the South
HMS Broadsword and Hermes, 1982
Etendard en 1982
HMS Antelope 1982
Argentine PO Ws
Type 42 destroyer
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The Type 42 or Sheffield class was developed to provide the Royal Navy with a cost-effective, medium-sized guided-missile destroyer focused on fleet air defence. Conceived in the late 1960s after the
Falklands War
…to Puerto Deseado two days later. The Canberra's crew were never found. On 4 May, two days after the sinking of General Belgrano, the British lost the Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield to fire following an Exocet missile strike from the Argentine 2nd Naval Air Fighter/Attack Squadron. Sheffield had been ordered forward…
HMS Birmingham
ARA Hércules following her conversion