British Aircraft of the Falklands War BOOK

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eBay Store Design by Visualsoft\n\nBritish Aircraft of the Falklands War BOOK\n\n--\n\u00A315.99\n\n--|\n\nThe Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 miles from the coast of Argentina. The ownership of the islands had long been disputed, but it reached a boiling point in March 1982, when a group of individuals raised the Argentine flag on South Georgia. Foreseeing a large-scale response from British forces, the Argentine government quickly ordered Operation Rosario, and, on 2 April 1982, undertook an amphibious invasion of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Retaking the islands posed a logistical nightmare for the British task force. Fortunately, there was a small forward operating airfield on Ascension Island, halfway between Britain and the Falklands. At the time, many of the British aircraft did not have air-to-air refuelling capabilities and lacked the range to reach the South Atlant