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Operation Mikado was the code name of a military plan by the United Kingdom to use Special Air Service troops to attack the home base of Argentina's five Super Etendard strike fighters at Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, during the 1982 Falklands War. [1] Brigadier Peter de la Billière [2] was in charge of planning the operation.
Falklands War. Operation Corporate, 2 April–14 June 1982, the overall British operation to recover the Falkland Islands. The SAS alongside the SBS carried out numerous reconnaissance missions and diversionary raids in East and West Falkland to support the campaign. SAS forward observers also directed British artillery and aircraft.
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Norman McDade says he uses art as a way of remembering and dealing with difficult memories of his past.
Captain Gavin John Hamilton, MC (15 May 1953 – 10 June 1982) [2] was a British Army infantry soldier. He was educated at The Royal Masonic School, Bushey. He was the Officer Commanding 19 (Mountain) Troop, D Squadron, 22 Special Air Service during the Falklands War when he was killed in action behind enemy lines on West Falkland.
Pages in category "British Army personnel of the Falklands War" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bill McDowell and Norman McDade, both veterans of the Falklands war, met to mark the conflict’s 40th anniversary.
The former prime minister’s visit is the first by a member of the Cabinet since then-defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon’s trip in 2016.