War in the Falklands : Documentary with lot's of real footage of the conflict

[IFB]

War in the Falklands

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In this dramatic three part series, we tell the story of the Falklands War through the eyes of the British and Argentine soldiers who battled it out in the South Atlantic. The 2 April 1982 Argentine invasion of the islands unleashed a deadly conflict fought at close quarters. A British task force, which was outnumbered three to one, fought the Argentine soldiers all the way to Port Stanley, the capital.

Although the ‘Reagan-Thatcher axis’ would be the most enduring personal alliance in the western world throughout the 1980s, Britain entered the Falklands alone. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was bent upon defending the 1,800 islanders, people of British ‘tradition and stock’ who were now controlled by a foreign power. She dismissed advice from officials like Defence Secretary John Nott, who believed that Britain’s largest remaining colony could not be re-taken. She assembled a task force in order to fight a war 8,000 miles from Britain’s shores. On 5 April the first battle ships and aircraft carriers set sail. Americans diplomats watched with interest, believing their militarily inferior ally would quickly lose.

Indeed, the fate of Thatcher’s task force was touch and go. If one of the aircraft carriers had been knocked out, or if the Argentines had effectively opposed the amphibious landing at San Carlos, Britain’s attempt to recapture her long-faded imperial ‘glory’ would have been doomed. Furthermore, if the British Army had not managed to fight their way through the mountains that protected Stanley so rapidly, hundreds of people would have frozen to death in the snow.

Those who fought on the British side in the war included the Parachute Regiment, the Royal Marines, the SAS, the Guards, highly trained Harrier pilots and skilled sailors. This is an incredibly frank account of the war through the eyes of the men on both sides. We talk to a wide spectrum of the war’s veterans, including a paratrooper who describes using a bayonet on Argentine positions, and an SAS sergeant who lay hidden in the ground for four weeks in freezing conditions observing the opposing forces.

We also hear from an Argentine fighter who attempted to repel an SAS platoon bent on blowing up all the aircraft on his runway, and the Falklands police chief. This man disappeared into the mountains when the Argentines invaded, only to emerge when the British troops arrived. He was later made an honorary Paratrooper for guiding them through the minefields.

The survivors of the bombing of the Argentine Belgrano cruiser are also interviewed, as are the crew of the HMS Conqueror. We also talk to British surgeons, who describe the major operations they performed on both men and prisoners under bomb attack. The programme makes exclusive use of servicemen’s diaries and letters written at the time, together with previously unseen ITN footage, revealing the true horror of the Falklands War.

It consists of 3 episodes you dont need to download all the three files to view them....just download the first part which is like 400 mb only and see for yourself

Here are some screenshots (dont mind the poor screenshots the quality of the video is good)



British destroyer after being hit by a argentinian jet



Exocet missile being fired



An argentinian jet going kaboom



Argentinian jets attacking the royal navy



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Second episode : Download War in the Falklands - Part2.avi, upload your files and earn money. in the Falklands - Part2.avi

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[Pakchina]

According to military analysts if Argentine had waited till 1983 to invade, the UK would have not been able to re-conquer the Falklands. This is because Argentine would have been able to equip all its aircraft with the deadly exocet instead of dropping dumb bombs and could be able to launch long distance strike against the task force while the UK would have already scrapped the two remaining Harrier aircraft carriers. Anyway, UK had lost many ships during the war including the HMS Sheffield its most modern Type 42 destroyer, HMS Coventry, Sir Galahand, the Atlantic Conveyor with Chinook helicopters etc. British soldiers had no air cover but they fought well due to their courage and training received. Argentina had total air superiority and the US had provided support to UK in terms of refueling of vulcan bombers, satellite intelligence and an AWACS had been offered to detect the incoming of Argentinian air strikes. If Argentine had mobilized all its military might, the UK would have lost the war.

 

[IFB]

^^Yeah they could have won...but the argentinian pilot says they only had 5 exocet missiles during the war