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Jimbuna
08-05-13, 05:56 AM
RIP Sir

Fair winds and following seas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23575534
TarJak
08-05-13, 05:57 AM
RIP:salute:

Rest your oars sailor.
BossMark
08-05-13, 06:21 AM
RIP Sandy Woodward
:salute::salute::salute:
August
08-05-13, 07:26 AM
RIP :salute:
WernherVonTrapp
08-05-13, 08:16 AM
21 guns :salute:!
Herr-Berbunch
08-05-13, 08:31 AM
RIP Sir Sandy :salute:
Garion
08-05-13, 10:01 AM
RIP :salute:

Gary
Wxman
08-08-13, 02:21 PM
Very comprehensive article on the conflict in Air & Space Smithsonian many years ago.

These guys were not fooling around. Both sides were in deadly earnest; it was an issue of national pride for both sides.

It never ceases to amaze me how the fog of war, and "as fate would have it", affects the most elegant plans of batle. The "if but for" circumstances in the Falkland War - and it was a war - are breathtaking (for both sides).
TLAM Strike
08-08-13, 02:49 PM
:salute: RIP Admiral Woodward