I. (Tape 1) Aerial shots from an Army helicopter of Port Stanley, Mount Pleasant Airfield and the coast of East Falkland, including the hulk of the ironclad Lady Elizabeth and a red-hulled ...
(Sequence 53A) General Mario Benjamin Menendez.
(Sequence 53B) General Mario Benjamin Menendez.
(Sequence 56A) Sergeant Manuel Battista.
(Sequence 79A) David Gompert ...
(Sequence 52A) Lieutenant Sevilla's mother.
(Sequence 60A) Jose Maria Arca (labelled as "Captain Arca").
(Sequence 63A) Captain Carbello.
(Sequence 65A) Lieutenant Ricardo ...
(Sequence 17B) Alan Whitworth.
(Sequence 49) Lieutenant Guillermo Owen Crippa.
(Sequence 61A) Argentine Air Force personnel Jose Julia and Hector Destri.
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Programme looking at SAS operations during the Falklands War and focusing in part on a daring night-time raid made weeks in advance of the invasion. The assault force were flown into an isolated Argentinian air ...
Journalist Max Hastings returns to the Falklands for the first time since the war.
After a brief introduction, which covers the political and strategic background, the command structure and the despatch of the Task Force, Part 1 concentrates on the planning and conduct of the landings, including the preliminary and diversionary ...
Port Stanley would clearly be the key battlefield; Part 2 highlights the importance of concentrating the maximum number of battalions/commandos for that battle as quickly as possible. It deals with the Argentine air attacks, the problems of logistics ...
Part 3 does not aim to give equal coverage to all battalion/commando actions. It adopts a theme, the Application of Force, and illustrates selected aspects: (a) The Indirect Approach - 42 Commando's attack on Mt. Harriet, coming in, as it did, ...
Part 4, taking place in the studio, is a series of discussions with selected participants, designed to highlight areas from which, with their experience, useful lessons can be drawn. These include: (a) Higher level command and control; (b) Command ...
Marking the 20th anniversary of the Falklands War, this documentary relays the impact of the war at home, particularly with regard to the turnaround in the political fortunes of PM Margaret Thatcher.
