I'll even accept it as a crime if you can show that the Belgrano was not sunk in self defence, that it was politically motivated, but to do that you have to show why the Admiralty pushed for the sinking. Reassessing the Fighting Performance of Conscript Soldiers during the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) by Alejandro L. Corbacho Monte Longdon:La batalla en la que los francotiradores argentinos desafiaron el sueño imperialista de la «pérfida» Inglaterra This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day.

Why a Victoria Cross should be awarded to a Falklands Why a Victoria Cross should be awarded to a Falklands

VGM Jorge “Beto” Altieri: “Yo defendí a la Patria y la Patria no me defiende… Yo necesito a la Patria…” MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) It must have been some fight because all our rifle company patrols were reporting blood, bits of meat and bandages scattered all over the area. From the way things were scattered the SAS must have been up against at least seventy enemy." [21]The Argentine forces consisted of B Company, 7th Infantry Regiment (RI 7), part of 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, as well as detachments from other units. The local Argentine commander was 34-year-old Major Carlos Carrizo Salvadores, the second-in-command of RI 7. [10] The 7th Infantry Regiment, reinforced by two Marine Infantry platoons, held Mount Longdon, Wireless Ridge (to the northwest of the Capital), Port Stanley, and Cortley Ridge (to the east). Marine Teniente de Navío (naval rank equivalent to army captain) Sergio Andrés Dachary had arrived at Mount Longdon in the week preceding the battle and was on hand to direct the Marine-manned heavy machine-guns protecting the Infantry stationed there. [11] This is less than the truth. Campaigners may believe that McLaughlin was the victim of carelessness and trivial technicality. But others in a better position to understand — rank-and-file paratroopers – believe that the citation was abandoned because McLaughlin had committed what many would consider war-crimes but which his comrades believe to have been no more than what was expected of him. Hence both their anger and politicians’ uneasiness. David Aldea. "Mount Kent". britains-smallwars.com . http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/kent.html . Retrieved 4 April 2010. Likewise. If you want to call the islands Las Malvinas, well that's fine by me...Equally you shouldn't be to perturb if i call them The Falklands Islands..

14 photo memories of Bramley in 1997 - Yorkshire Evening Post 14 photo memories of Bramley in 1997 - Yorkshire Evening Post

Longdon was the most likely objective for his Battalion. He set up a patrol base in the area of the Murrell Bridge, protected by 4 Platoon from B Company. The Battalion's patrols staged through this patrol base, reducing the distance that they had to travel to reach Mount Longdon and return to the main position each night." 3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands, Julian Thomson, Pen & Sword, 2008 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1362425-un-heroe-todos-los-heroes Un héroe, todos los héroes lanacion.com, 03/04/2011 The only British death in the SAS operations to counter Argentine commando patrols in the high ground overlooking Stanley Common occurred when an SAS patrol accidentally fired upon an SBS patrol in the early hours of 2 June and SBS Sergeant Ian ‘Kiwi’ Nicholas Hunt was killed. [18]

The Argentine forces on Mount Longdon were recalled reservists with a year of military training. Part of this training saw the 7th Regiment undertake major all-arms collective training in central Argentina alongside the 3rd and 6th Infantry Regiments of the 10th Brigade. [12] The young RI 7 soldiers were not going to abandon their positions easily and several were prepared to hold their ground. They possessed fully automatic FN FAL rifles, FAP light machine guns and PAMS sub-machine guns; these fully-automatic weapons delivered more firepower than the similar but semi-automatic British L1A1 rifles (SLR). They were also equipped with FN MAG 7.62mm general purpose machine guns, which were almost identical to those of the British. Recuerdo el nombre de un soldado que murió, al que yo mismo enterré. Se llamaba Rito Portillo, un morochito de Marina. Vino muy mal herido, tenía una profunda herida en el abdomen con exposición de vísceras. Lo atendimos pero... Llegué a conversar bastante con él. Lo único que me decía es que eso le dolía mucho. No lloraba, no gritaba, no se quejaba en forma desmesurada. Se murió mansamente, mansamente... No dijo ninguna frase heroica ni nada. Solo se murió mansamente, diciendo que a él le dolía. No fue ningún sargento Cabral ni nada por el estilo. Se murió, pero lo hizo sin gritos, hasta sin demagogia. Humildemente, como debe haber sido su vida... Asi quisiera morirme yo, de la misma manera.(HECTOR RUBEN SIMEONI, Malvinas: Contrahistoria, páginas 152/153, Editorial Inédita, 1984) The reason the MoD opted not to endorse the citation was that an officer of the regiment objected in writing, saying that McLaughlin’s webbing pouch had been found to contain sawn-off ears and other unspecified Argentine body parts and that it would be contrary to military honour to award him Britain’s highest medal. politically motivated…”: I could give you several sources (including british) saying that it was politically motivated but, as I said in my previous post, I don’t think I’m going to change your mind.

Bibliography – Books related to the 1982 Falklands Conflict

From my reading of it it has to do with the rights of neutral and Argentinian civilian vessels or aircraft entering the "zone". Not belegerant warships and support vessels.

Baldini was reported to have handed cups of hot chocolate milk to his sodden conscripts in late May 1982. [25]