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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Battery History -- Battery Composition -- Chapter 1 The Build Up and Deployment to the Falklands -- Chapter 2 Sailing South -- Chapter 3 Orders -- Chapter 4 War Diary -- Chapter 5 Going Ashore -- Chapter 6 â#x80;#x98;Air Raid Warning â#x80;#x93; Redâ#x80;#x99; -- Chapter 7 Sheep Stew in a Dustbin -- Chapter 8 Bluff Cove position -- Chapter 9 Wether Ground -- The Last Position -- Chapter 10 Surrender: The Immediate Aftermath -- Chapter 11 The Return Home |
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Chapter 12 EpilogueAppendix I Letters -- Appendix II D+12,646: Falklands Revisited 2017 |
| Summary |
The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict. Second Lieutenant Tom Martin was a Command Post Officer with 29 (Corunna) Field Battery RA which deployed to the South Atlantic in 1982 as part of the Task Force dispatched to retake the Falklands. With its six 105mm Light Guns making the journey on the MV Europic Ferry, the Battery sailed south on the MV Norland with 2 PARA, joining 3 Commando Brigade for the landings. The five gun batteries of the Royal Artillery, totaling thirty light field guns, fired a tremendous number of shells on the Argentine forces. For its part, 29 (Corunna) Field Battery fired the first Fire Mission of the conflict and continued to do so until the Argentinian surrender in the most testing environment and against the odds. Whilst in the South Atlantic, Martin sought to detail and record the action on the Batterys gun position. Supported by the recollections of some of those he served alongside, Martins notes and diary entries form the basis of this book; a vivid, blow-by-blow account which provides a comprehensive picture of the Royal Artillery and its pivotal role in the Falklands War |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army -- History -- Falklands Islands War, 1982
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Army fast |
| Subject |
Falkland Islands War, 1982.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781473881235 |
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1473881234 |
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