Photos Argentine Falklands Images.

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April 6th 1982: More and more Argentine troops are taking up garrison duty in the Falklands, with the 8th Infantry Regiment flown over from Comodoro Rivadavia, where they will soon be based in West Falkland. Orders are issued for the 5th Infantry Regiment to follow.

 

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Fact Slap

Today in 1982, ARA General Belgrano takes on fuel from her support tanker Puerto Rosales, her crew are unaware that HMS CONQUEROR is sat right beneath them to avoid detection.

CONQUEROR has picked up the tanker before the warships, it was observed and deemed that a tanker out here this full of fuel could only be meeting warship to resupply them. Using the sprint and drift tactic, CONQUEROR is able to sneak in with the tanker and warships and then take up a safe position to sit listen and wait.

Puerto Rosales captain claimed he spotted a periscope but nothing is found. After refuelling the ships part company, the warships head east towards the TEZ and the the tanker west back to Argentina.

As the 3 warships proceed east, they have no idea they have a new friend sat right below them. That makes the below photo even more incredible.

 

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Not mine, credit to whomever it was that snapped these

 

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I'd love to have that FAL he's got there........

 

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Argentine AAV in Port Stanley observed by local kids

 

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A group photo on the Falklands Islands, 1982

 

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Onboard Almirante Irizar, tending to the wounded during evacuation after the surrender

 

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June 1st 1982: At 14:40 an Argentine Skyhawk is seen flying along Moody Valley, smoking and flying erratically, perhaps with engine failure. Argentine AAA opens up, bringing it down, as the pilot ejects over sea.

 

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June 13th 1982: A C-130 Hercules braves the bombardment to land at Stanley and shove two new 155mm CITER guns out on makeshift sleds, complete with spare parts & 100 rounds. Seventy men clamber aboard, mainly wounded, with two journalists and a few escapees, before take-off.

Priority is given to wounded men, and three officers; Lt Reyes, Captain Cardoso, and Captain Albornoz are denied boarding: "There's no way to stop them (British) now..." says the C-130 Captain, as he watches the battles drawing closer, "they have better means at their disposal".

Due to transport problems, only one of the guns, ironically nicknamed "The Great Leopoldo" after Galtieri, makes it to the front and ammunition is parcelled out as repairs are made to the other damaged 155mm gun to get it back into action... they now share 80 rounds per gun.

 

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Royal Marines cover the bodies of two Argentines shot on Ross Road in town. A local told them that an officer shot them point blank with a pistol for running from the front line and refusing to salute him when he tried to stop them.
The Argentine version is that soldiers Horacio Adolfo Balvidares and Horacio José Echave, killed by enemy artillery fire in Ross Road close to the Falklands Battle Memorial, while retreating from Tumbledown