The Falklands 40 years on – by the veterans who survived it

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🔴The war lasted 74 days with fierce fighting at sea, air and on land, but for those who were there it’s memory will last a lifetime

I can still remember when I heard the news that Argentina had invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982. My Easter holidays were being spent with a school friend, whose father was a former Naval officer. Indeed, it was only when he was calculating the nautical miles and time it would take that I realised the islands were in the South Atlantic – and not off the coast of Scotland.

 

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