British Armada Set Sail for War in the Falklands - CBS Evening News - April 5, 1982
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- The largest Royal Navy battle fleet assembled in 25 years embarks for the Falkland Islands three days after the Argentinian takeover. Lord Carrington resigns and PM Margaret Thatcher describes the nation's resolve to retake the overseas territory.
An MP resigning because he was responsible. Dont see that anymore.
He himself was not responsible. His resignation was a tactic to make the whole government seem not so inept.
Definitely, they would be too busy blaming each other and ducking and diving, nothing would get done! And Carrington was not to blame at all.
@@az4455 Not as inept as you think. I couldn't imagine any other government actually sending a force to retake the islands. Those that have come and gone since would fold quicker than a wet wafer.
@@bmused55 inept enough though that they allowed the islands to be almost forgotten amongst its defence budget. These are islands of massive geographic and geopolitical importance. They are also in close proximity to oil reserves.
He was a minister but not an MP. He sat in the House of Lords.
Carrington was an old fashioned man of integrity. Did you know he was part of the tank force fighting through to Arnhem?
And I thought the only good postwar politician was Bud Dwyer.
Deputy PM Whitelaw tank commander in Normandy too
@@paulodingle2142 PM Ted Heath was an artillery Captain. James Callahan was a RN Petty Officer, so many military men in politics in those days from WW2
Did he not also win the MC, or some other high ranking decoration?
@@philiptilden2318 Yes, he got an MC at Nijmegen bridge, citation reads;
‘On 20th September 1944, this Officer was ordered to guide a Troop of tanks down to the NIJMEGEN Bridge and then push them across with a view to capturing the bridge intact. The Troop duly attacked, captured the bridge, and then pushed up the main road on the far side for some distance to consolidate their gain. Hearing that the enemy had infiltrated between the Troop and the bridge, this Officer on his own initiative, crossed the bridge in his tank and engaged the enemy, driving them off and remained holding the far side of the bridge until relieved by another tank. He then proceeded up the road and joined the Troop holding the Centre Line. By his devotion to duty and initiative, this Officer was undoubtedly instrumental in control being retained of the NORTHERN approaches to the Bridge at a very vital time’.
“A third less likely possibility, the British invade the islands”
Britain: RULE BRITANNIA
@ukyorkie1 yeah fuck Argentina. I love that they thought we’d just sit back but then we fucked them up
As it should be.
Dan Rather is wrong again...
@ukyorkie1 And? It is still an "invasion". You probably think the Normandy invasions werent invasions
The USA owns your shitty little island.
Don't mess with Britians' rock collection
@@strikereureka5081 you're not thinking far enough ahead. what about strategic military bases? underwater oil/mineral rights? besides who else is gonna own those islands?
@@strikereureka5081 also falklands are't useless either way, and even if they were the natives are British who are under the protection of the UK.
@@strikereureka5081 it's more about principle than anything else, were talking about politics here and the UK has one of the biggest egos in the world lol
@@strikereureka5081 still got a massive ego regardless of any of that so pointless putting that quote under quotation marks.. I think you'll find America is a former colony that speak English and the UK takes credit for that monstrosity and although the country isn't as mighty as it once was with its empire it still holds the most soft power of any country in the entire world because of it's imperial roots
They're minerals
little did Argentina know, they'd start hearing boss music real quick...
Sent to the islands to secure what is ours.
Marching ashore in the cover of night.
Rule Britannia starts playing
Imagine seeing you here. Lol I love your chanel BTW
I watch your channel all the time, and upon scrolling through the comments I was quite shocked to see you!
@@ivantheteribul Ours? The falkland is not british.
"A third less likely possibility, a British invasion of the aisles"
Wait, the media was wrong?
always have been
Aisles? Dear God....
Who said it was wrong they said less likely not that it wouldn’t happen
They were if they said “aisles”
You know there's a difference between "less likely" and "will never happen"? I feel in this day and age that there should be a mandatory two year course in statistics and probability.
"A third less likley possibility, a British invasion of the Islands..." - erm YEA :D
Hindsight is great isn't it 😂
UK: Hold my tea
Rule Britannia!
In his defence he probably hasn't read much of the history of the small islands of the coast of Europe.
"GET OFF MY ROCKS!"
Brit wars: episode 5. The Empire Strikes Back
That was an article in a newspaper at the time lol
@@orionise9715 True
@@orionise9715 Newsweek to be extact.
This war shaped my future. I join the British Army the following year and served for 22years.
Hmm our names hold similarities XD
@@privatechaos1742 Prepare for trouble and make it double ahhaha
@@KoRbA2310 indeed
How was it being a mindless slave haha, what a loser
@@dionysus8967 It is better to be a man with the conviction to do something than to do nothing but criticise the actions of others.
A little known fact is New Zealand took over patrols in British territory while the marines that normally guard the areas were at the duck hunt... sorry the war, I meant the war. Thanks guys 🇬🇧🇫🇰❤️🇳🇿
The idea that Britain did it all alone is just romantic foolishness. So many allies helped in lots of areas.
@@burstcity3832 like what? Covering our jobs elsewhere
When it came to the physical fighting we were alone. Something the yanks or other allies have never done in modern warfare.
@@danh555 If you want to narrow the whole to a single point of course we did all the fighting, expand it to the larger picture and we were not alone and had many allies helping us.
The idea that we would have needed other countries soldiers to help us retake an island held by mainly volunteers is strange. It was only the distance and time frame that made the whole conflict a challenge. Its a true measure of how stupid the Argentinian leader was that lives were lost, it was obvious as soon as it was decided to fight what the utcome would be. The allies we had made the whole conflict less costly in terms of lives and intelligence. Knowing we could have a replacement aircraft carrier from the US helped no end, France providing missile codes helped, other nations taking over our responsibilities so no treaties were violated helped, and so on, but yes, we did all the fighting.
@@burstcity3832 you’ve done a tiny amount of reading and you’re just repeating what you think you understand. It’s not a very good summary of events.
Thankyou New Zealanders!! Our Brothers and sisters on the opposite side of the world! 👍
Despite financial difficulties, Great Britain managed to assemble an armada and retake the Falklands. That victorious fleet rightfully sailed back to port with sounds of "Rule Britannia" enriching the air.
People who do not know about the war say that there was a lot of advantage on the British side, it is a lie, since the war was not expected they did not take much ammunition or food, that affected the Argentine combat level, but taking the 300 lives lost in the Belgrano (300 casualties), 300 Argentines and 200 British died on the islands
Yeah the UK has been pretty succesfull at winning wars against mercilessly inferior opponents for last 300 years.
@@deralte4527 like France, Germany, Spain, USA, Ottoman Empire ect. What joke opposition.
@War & Paranormal Take a chill pill - this is the youtube comment section after all.
@@theoncousland4587 Except she was allied with pretty much all other remaining superpowers of the time
The high-ups in the army were a tad pissed when they saw the media reporting every single detail about our armada and the series of RAF planes we were sending down to the Falklands. One of them can be quoted as saying "well why don't you give them the date and time of the first attack while you're at it"
They left the aircraft on the decks, when usually they would have been kept in the hangar, on purpose for the cameras so that Argentina would see that the fleet was coming so they would maybe want to seek a diplomatic solution.
Was ridiculous even the argie pilot said the BBC showed them their missiles were not exploding correctly, so they made adjustments.. blood on their hands
There would've been no way to hide that amount of ship going over
@@jamesflaherty59 Yeah the ships are one thing, but the Vulcan should not have been part of the broadcast. Here's what I am talking about: ruclips.net/video/u8FEmLVHE_w/видео.html
@jon tyler The BBC announced it because someone in the government had given them the story and forgot to tell them _not_ to broadcast it. It would have been intended to give them time to put together a proper story to be broadcast _after_ the attack, but someone on the government side screwed up. Thatcher blamed the MoD, the MoD blamed the Cabinet Office...nobody really knows who was responsible.
As they say, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence". Both the forces and the media were still figuring out how war reporting would work in a modern media context; cock-ups were bound to happen.
Am Jamaican but i love the U.K
Why?
I love you too. God save jamica. 🇯🇲🇬🇧🇯🇲
@@Ben-ek1fz but Britain colonised and oppressed Jamaica for centuries. What about slavery?
@@joshuacondell1686 bcz i am apart of the English commonwealth. Plus i like the place.
@@joshuacondell1686 Ikr, lucky the Brits abolished it across the world, because everyone else was pretty firm on keeping it
One of the few wars in recent history that was completely justified that our country fought. One cannot simply invade British territory and expect a different result.
A 72-day operation that ended in the complete surrender of the enemy; the only war Margaret Thatcher got involved in, unlike a certain T. Blair; he walks this earth with the mark of Cain upon him, until his last dying day.
@@danielw5850 and no depleted uranium shells, no masses of people displaced etc etc.
Because other wars tended to be American ones that we got roped into.
@@neiltaylor8198 I think you've gone "a bit Twitter" with the Ad hominem, Neil and people were murdered in the Grand Hotel, that night.
Unless it's China taking Hong Kong! LOL
Imagine going up against the Royal Navy, ruler of the waves for 500 years, and your not even in the top 50 navies in the world..
Bold strategy cotton lets see how it plays out
@Nappy Dappy And yet the British have never really been defeated at sea. Sure, they're not the preeminent naval power anymore but I think it was pretty folly of Argentina to think they could militarily defeat one of the worlds first-rate military powers.
500 years? Fly down mate.. I'll give 100 years at top. U forgot the Spanish and French navy
Meanwhile today their navy is shrinking. It is cannibalizing dozens of ships to try to stay an aircraft carrier maintaining nation. It has completely dismantled its capability to project force in the manner it did in the Falklands due to its logistical reliance on the US and diversion of military spending. The royal navy isn't so scary today. Unfortunately. UK should make a huge resurgence and get a balanced and logistically independently capable fleet built up in my opinion.
@@belladesa91 spanish navy? what a joke... french navy? it has never been a thing lol
Portugal helped us too, our oldest Ally.
They offered us anchorage in the Azores..
Always there they are. Solid.
cheers from portugal
Love Portugal. Indeed, our oldest ally. Respect!
england sided with the persians against the portuguese. Not oldest ally but most useful tool in the british shed
I see that the treaty of Winsdor still holds to this day. RESPECTS for both
Apparently a lot of Russian planning and thought about Britains response to a future war had to be thrown away and started again after the Falklands. The Soviets had us pegged as weak and indecisive before.
Wasn’t too daft of them to assume it either, we were slashing our armed forces to shreds throughout the seventies
@@ryanchapman8255 and we still are.
soviets already in kabul? bullshit
All the cuts made to our armed forces by the Tories would've made us look weak and egged on the likes of Argentina. Shame Thatcher gets credit for it when her government started the mess in the first place.
They always underestimate British even Till this day you see comments about how Britain is weak when they are literally at the tume of me writing this comment the best military in Europe.
Harrier jump jet! Saw one in the flesh as a kid at an air show. Could not get over the power and noise. Phenomenal piece of engineering.
I couldn't agree more, one of the very best.
Me too, I saw one at Yeovilton just after the Falklands as a 10yr old. It bloody mesmerised and excited me, it was fcuk*** amazing.
I joined the Royal Navy in 1990' I just had to be part of something special
I spent a lot of my childhood on Invincible. Played with Harriers, in Ops, wandered around the ship, I loved asking damage control to make all the lights flash, watched them shoot flares with the gambo.
Finally, I sailed from Gibraltar to Portsmouth
Good times.
Seen one at the sunderland air show it came realy close to the crowd it was deafening it was surprised they were aloud to get that close
Huv ah look fur your wife’s dildo , try the power n noise of that phenomenal piece of engineering
The defeat of Argentina in the Falklands War served as the catalyst for the implosion of the fascist govt in power in Buenos Aires.
The one good thing we the people of Argentina got out of that stupid war
@@willhem5668 I respect argentines who accept defeat honourably, there is no need for further hostilities.
I was told exactly that by a argentine Falklands vet in Cyprus, in 1994.
He also said they got revenge in 86.
It's really sad that today there are a lot of people in Latin America who actually idolize these CIA-installed fascist governments and think it's patriotic. 'You support the CIA and the rich elites more than your own country?' "SI, mi general, Augusto Pinochet jajajajajaja"
@@mussicanttakegreece7296Yes especially since Britain has been defeated by immigration so it’s all good
3 possible actions.
3rd Option: The unlikely event of a british invasion.
Thatcher: *laughs in British*.
Britain: Combine two and three.
BattleBooms Did he say third? Pfffft.
That was our first and only option.
How silly that report was..
@@wjumeau Nobody wanted to go to war.
@@WilliamAFerguson oh I know.
But that’s what happened.
Eh ? 😳
@@WilliamAFerguson obviously Argentina did
3:36 “One of the last bits of a once vast empire” chills
Think about it this way. We still have 14 overseas territories and the commonwealth which is better than most other empires have done.
It was, and amazingly, perhaps a measure of the many peoples of the empire, we are all friends and great allies.
Time to add in to our history the more complete story, it will only serve to make us more illustrious.
Though few Americans have an understanding that very few British people define themselves by empire at all. Americans define themselves much more as a world policeman and controller, and that's why they are fascinated by empires.
@@cyanoticspore6785 and britains ant arctic territory is actually huge 4x bigger than the uk itself..
@@cyanoticspore6785 Yes really, along with us French you still are the greatest empire in the world !
This Prince Andrew guy sounds like a standup dude, serving in the Navy and going to war for his country.
I sure hope his reputation in the future remains good
Was looking for the comment XD
@@katanabluejay1 year later it sure did
Apparently the men didn't like him even then
And those Royal Marines went back to help retake the islands. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Don’t forget the paras
@@jbcf4490 the paras did the worst of the fighting just to watch the royal marines hoist the flag in Stanley 🙄
@union310 marines are brilliant in this kind of warfare sea/land operation it’s what they are trained for para training is different both done outstanding in this conflict .
@@jbcf4490 The Paras didn't 'go back'..
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Why cant Americans seem to delineate between Britain and England.
Guess i will start calling the US, Texas, then.
texas is not 90% of the population of america
Yes and they seem to forget where their language originally came from too.
@@levytaxes1454 It's a shame only 15% can speak English. Rest of them can only manage Cockney, Geordie, Scouser, and other assorted local dialects.
They accents which have some slang words, not slang
@D S doesn't make England Britain tho🤷...it's like calling France the UN
Boy, being able to sail in 3 days was impressive. Also, going it alone.
This is why the British need a strong navy. As a mainland European, while we have our differences despite being good friends and close allies, I salute the spirit of defending your territory from hostility.
That`s why the Royal Navy is in the middle of a massive overhaul.
Currently, we are the only European country with a supercarrier, in fact we have two but unfortunately the delays to the F-35 project is limiting their projection capability.
We also have best attack subs in the world with the Astute class and are currently building the Dreadnought class SSBNs which will be on a different level to anything else. There will also be the Type 26, 31 and 32 frigates coming into service soon.
The real weakness the UK has at the moment is with its army which has shrunk back to the size it was during the Napoleonic era plus several major procurement projects have turned into complete disasters. This hasn`t been helped by successive British governments butchering defence spending to fund tax cuts for the last 20 years.
The politicians have only woken up now that Russia is a rampage. Hopefully this will be the catalyst for restoring our armed forces to the sledgehammer they once were.
Yeah that also the reason why Napoleon and Hitler can't invade Britain
It over there , it ain’t British
@@stephenwalker850 its people are british?
I have a mate and he was Tactical Radar Operator on HMS Invincible during the Falklands War he didn't know if he was going to live or die!.. Thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
Thank you New Zealand Navy You sent one of your ships to take up duties covering the UK whilst our fleet sailed south.
I remember those days. The whole world was saying that the UK would not respond to the invasion. Everyone in the UK thought differently.
Like many people here in the UK The Falklands lslands had never been heard of. A tiny group of islands 8,000 miles away in the South Atlantic .I live in the naval port of Plymouth and it sent ships and the Royal Marines to the conflict.
The era of great leaders no matter if you hate or love her.
@Scott Johnson Cry more please
I still find it insane that Argentina thought they could take on Britain.
To be fair to them, they didn’t they just hoped we’d leave it ,which is why it went so wrong for them lol
@@GeorgeVenturi It is known that before the war the islanders did not have British nationality
People who do not know about the war say that there was a lot of advantage on the British side, it is a lie, since the war was not expected they did not take much ammunition or food, that affected the Argentine combat level, but taking the 300 lives lost in the Belgrano (300 casualties), 300 Argentines and 200 British died on the islands
Argentinian did it out of 2 reasons britain was already in the debt hole which made them going to war make them go deeper into that hole and the Argentinian military dictator at that time who wasnt really popular thought if he could take the islands hed be declared a national hero
The whole world for some STUPID reason literally thought we would just do nothing ☠
A couple of days before we landed the ships all grouped together. It was a grey sea and grey sky as I looked 360 it was full of ships. It was an awesome sight. At this time we were all loading ourselves on the decks with ammunition. Belts of GPMG grenades and 66mm rockets and filling our magazines up with 7.62. I knew I was part of history and our mission was a righteous one.
13 Argies have watched this.
17 now
Some argies are of British decent, so you’re making fun of yourself
@@PrestonGarv he doesn’t mean just an Argie out of Argentina.
20 now
Alfie Marsh what other argies are there? wtf are you talking about?
I got to refuel an RAF Vulcan bomber enroute down there from Offutt AFB in Nebraska. They loaded all their gear in a cargo pallet and hoisted it into the bomb bay and man, these guys were hyper. The ground crew were the guys they had stationed there before, so we knew a lot of them. Pretty cool gentlemen, I'd reckon.
Vulcan bomber?
That means RAF had deployed at least three of em on Asencion Island for Operation Black Buck, a prelude attack, by putting the Runway of Port Stanley out of business to prevent the Argies from using it as an airbase for their fighters like the SkyHawk, Mirage III, and the Pucara.
@@scarecrow108productions7 We would get Vulcans, Victors and occasionally a few Tornadoes intransiting a lot at Offutt; the 22nd Bomber Group, RAF, was stationed there. The group was responsible for servicing their aircraft flying cross country here.They had their little corner of Nebraska just across the main runway set up like an RAF base. But this is right after the war was declared and this was the first time I'd seen them on a war footing.
@@ronaldrobertson2332 yeah. And when the war declared, the Vulcans were just three months into retirement and being scrapped, until they were called to action for the first time. The last three Vulcan squadrons were the 101, 50, and 44 sqn.
@@scarecrow108productions7 Hey, they had to have their last "Harrah".
@@scarecrow108productions7 They'd had their refueling probes removed years before, since in-flight refueling wouldn't be needed for them to reach the Soviet Union. Replacement parts had to be donated from _museums_ to be fitted to operational aircraft. Simply astonishing.
Argentines were lucky it was just the island.
British were lucky that our bombs from WWII didn't exploted and sink the royal navy. Also, you tried to take continental land and failed (operation Plum Duff).
@@mharg6408 Actually operation Plum Duff was about destroying 3 missiles and the planes which carried them it wasn't an invasion and it didn't "fail" it was cancelled
@@mharg6408 Ah, still bitter are you? Or do you just intentionally fail to grasp history?
Loss is inevitable in war. You lose men, you lose equipment. This is a given. What matters is who prevails. And I'm sorry to say, that was not Argentina in this conflict.
Your armies were defeated by men who marches many miles across open, windswept lands and engages their enemy without rest.
Your navy was sent running by a single submarine
Your planes shot down in droves by our planes and our ship defences.
You sunk some of our ships, but we kept coming and we drove you off our territory.
@@mharg6408 will you shut the fuck up
@@mharg6408 Wouldn't call it luck, call it Argentina not maintaining a capable armed forces
"a less likely british invasion" of the islands at 6:35
you mean 5:14
@@claudiov5554 yes thats correct
You can't invade your own territory.
@@flowerpower8722 This was just our armed forces pulling 'a freedom' before the US made it cool. Argentina's still around the bend from what I've last heard.
I’m German and never really liked Maggie Thatcher, but man she had every single right to fight the Argentines and fight she did! ^^
@Scott Johnson she was a great woman and leader, dry your eyes and grow up.
you lot didn't like Churchill either look how that ended
@@essexginge9167 The “baddies” didn’t like Churchill very much ;D
During the establishment of the new republic, Churchill was very popular among the German population who saw Britain as a natural ally. Churchill himself had a lot of respect to us too. He famously said about Konrad Adenauer: “When he (Adenauer) entered the room, everybody went silent and some even got nervous.“
@@essexginge9167 she ate poor peoples babies
Ireland hated Thatcher. God bless you Bobby Sands.
The British loyalist was save by the British military by Argentina. Got so much respect for the British army. 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
Nice Scottish flag. Margret Thatcher is burning in Hell.
@@Cristalack jelly and ice cream🏴
@@Cristalack keep dreaming
I had my first driving lesson that day. Not relevant but I always remember it because of this.
I was 1 years old lol
I passed my driving test that day. 5/4/82
YNWA
39 years ago this Monday I was on the Hot Walls in Old Portsmouth on that Monday morning along with 30,000 cheering Brits - let’s just say Argentinian corned beef was low on our menu that day.
Was there too…
6:07 War warnings on the World Service were much more entertaining back then
Back in the day, I was serving in the army of a country not usually sympathetic to Britain...got a lot of snide comments from my fellow officers along the lines of 'Ha ha, Britain being colonised'...My response was that if the British infantry get ashore, the Argies are toast...
"less likely option, invade the islands"
Britain: *GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!*
That was the day the Argentines should have left the Falklands......
Would have saved a lot of lives..... on both sides.....
Glad our boys did us good.....
Maggie didn’t lay down and take it......
he you think than military dictatorships give a d.... to his soldiers lifes?i remember Egypt soldiers used as livil wall to stop sand from enter a air base
@paul gorman Here's someone with a classic case of "I don't believe that not every single person in the world shares my personal views. What heresy."
@paul gorman Did you enjoy yhe 3 day work weeks and workers strikes before Thatchers government?
@paul gorman and youve achieved fucking what idiot
Morale of the story, They're not yours Argentina and NEVER will be.
It is literally across fucking 13 000 kilometres away from uk compared to 1 500 kilometres for argentina and islands
@@sawa4158 Distance doesn't matter if we're being honest.
@@sawa4158 yea but everyone on the island is british
@@Ooog__ I am sure Argentina didn't want the British on the island as much as the British on said Island Could've likely just made a deal and be like oi mate that our citizens quite bonkers to feckin' be on it with em mind lettin us get em they say yes and you would just oii mate thanks glad to get em off innit bruv alrightio cheerio Argentina
@@sawa4158 not when they invade a country, with soldiers and guns
3:26 the last time an argentinian soldier smiled
Bruh
If a Royal Navy battlegroup leaves its home port sailing for you, its game over chap. 🇬🇧
All that for a little island
@@fbiagent4200 no, as the politician said, all that for a national humiliation
Forza✌️Argentina
@@fbiagent4200 All that for 4,000+ people who wanted to be British.
@@fbiagent4200 Also, to get technical, the Falklands isn't 'a little island', it's actually a group of islands. The two main islands being East Falkland and West Falkland. But I can tell you don't have a clue what you're talking about anyway, so nevermind.
Argentina: "why do I hear boss music?"
i remember all that. i was 10 years old, no one in the world thought the u.k. coukd sail a fleet 8,000 miles and engage in a war of expulsion.
reagan was under immense pressure to envoke the north american act. but he took the side of thatcher.
the united kingdom Reasserted themselves in the Sea.
and engaged in a war for months against a well armed second world nation and won. mostly cuase of the vulkan, and the u.k. navy airforc e.
@union310 i think the point of the attack waa to show them, we could hit them
@duLouser i dont view argentina as third world at all. more like low second world, but third world nope.
when you say third world thats no.toilets, no.lights etc,.....
argentina is low to mid second world, has good infrastructure.good culture sustainable economy,
@duLouserno i dont think so, i know what your saying but thats not the orginal view
of second world, second world was places where the sky is not falling but not first world. poland, east europe medteranian
argentina south africa eas.once second world. spain is first world barely,
portugal second world, these are countries
which arent 100 percent industrialized, have adaquate jnfrastructure, but not the gdp of 1 st world.
anyway i gotta go cuase your a personlizationalist who just wants to find me wrong, second world, can be used to descfibe a place that is not first world
not third.
@duLouser Sorry but what you say is totally bonkers! What @ray bon says is totally right and was even teached in schools back in those days.
@duLouser yepp of course because all of the school books back then where false and only you and your source are right! Sorry how could we all misjudge your eternal wisdom and unique dogmatic request for being the single source of true knowledge!
And let not forget the fake news media and politicians back then also using the false terminology, they all should just have asked you!
The cabinet met, leaving the head of the Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach waiting outside. A junior minister saw him waiting and discretely let him in. The politicians were gloomy, and Margaret Thatcher despondent about Britain’s chances of retaking the Falklands. At this point Sir Henry piped up. “I can have a Task Force of Royal and Merchant Navy ships ready to sail by the end of the weekend to retake the Falklands” Thatcher then asked him, “Can we retake the islands”. Without hesitation he replied “Yes.”
The Royal Navy. “It takes 3 years to build a ship, 300 to build a reputation.”
It's quite interesting to watch almost 40 years old news. Also, ads at the end was cool
Never have been more proud of Britain, the Argentinians won’t make that mistake again.
I had the pleasure and honour of briefly meeting Lady Thatcher at her book signing and lecture in Leeds Town Hall after "The Fall". When her riveting talk got round to the Falklands, she said "My Generals and my Admirals came to me and said that it would be impossible to re-take the Falklands, I replied - "Just go away and do it !" Cue goosebumps all round and an instant standing ovation. A truly remarkable lady and we should not only be grateful for her achievements today but thankful for her life and her leadership.
And How G-d I wish she was here now
Actually it was Admiral Henry Leach who told her they should go. He turned up in full uniform at the meeting where the politicians all said it couldn't be done. He told her that if they didn't go then the Britain tomorrow would would be very different from the one today. He convinced her he could send a task force and that he could retake the islands.
@@mgytitanic1912 He later said that he said that 'she would be Prime Minister of a Britain that would mean nothing at all by a year from now'.
For taking the credit for the victory (as she took the credit for the Iranian Embassy siege's resolution), and letting it be known that all servicemen had voted for her after the Falklands due to her 'giving them a war' caused her fall, and rightly so.
What is sad and I mean sad is how politicians and public hated her ?
Mainly because of the miners.
@@davidbrown9093 Miners & poll tax. But that hate didn't stop a lot of labour voters taking advantage of their newly given option to buy their council houses
Appears less likely was most likely
Argentina had to be nearly pissing themselves knowing the Royal Navy was on its way. Rule, Britannia!
I wonder how many of them actually shit in their pants
Not really. Argentina inflicted their fair share of damage on the Royal Navy.
@@Polostar79 Only because the British didn't act in the same way as the Argentinians, Britain had the capacity to destroy Argentina. It is often forgotten that the British forces only retook the islands and did not punish Argentina.
It would have caused a huge global crisis but at that point had the British attacked the air bases in Argentina or sunk their fleet while it cowered in port the world including Russia and even China would have said "hard but fair". That all ignores the nuclear option, sitting off the coast.
😂😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧. Argentina was shitting brinks when the tast Force was in binoculars vision 😂
You don't understand. One day we will rule over our Islas Malvinas. It's about time. We are a young country. Europe it's diyng.
We'll return
God Protect Poland and Argentina
Full support for UK 🇮🇳🇬🇧🇮🇳🇬🇧🇮🇳🇬🇧
It’s surprising that. a Indian support the uk
@@ODST-803 Not really, they have great affinity with the UK, shown by their ability to assimilate into British culture.
India 🇮🇳 has alot of opinions on the UK 🇬🇧 not all Indians hate the British Empire and even love it. Very complex country
Seeing an advert on the news is so confusing to brits
Oh yeah, those ad breaks on ITN were so confusing to us.
Without ads most of our TV networks would go broke. It was only the BBC that didn't require ads.
When our Royal Navy sailed out to attack and recapture the Falkland islands we showed the rest of the world especially spain what we can do. The Argies thought that they could defeat us just because they outnumbered us but they thought wrong. They always say that its hard to launch an attack to recapture an Island but we did it and we did it after sailing half way around the world. The Argies were also pretty scared at how fast our lads could get down there after they spotted one of our Royal Navy submarines (the submarine made itself visibile on purpose to scare the Argies). After what we were able to do by our selves, we showed that we would sail 1000s of miles to protect our people, and the funny thing is after we won the Falkland war, the Spanish shut up real quick about Gibraltar.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
At the same time they sold out its loyal people hundreds of miles away in Northern Ireland
It's funny how mostly british here believes we were in advantage. Are you just kidding me ? It was a totally inequal war, but in favor of Great Britain:
You was the 3rd or 4th most powerfoul army in the world back then, you received the help of USA, France, Germany, Norway and so on (NATO). Our aircrafts were from the 50's, 60's, and a few constructed in the 70's (of who also we didn't had too much in cuantities) against the Harriers with sidewinders. Our troop were composed of guys of 18, 19 years, bad trained (a lot of them with only one mounth of conscription instruction), with food necessities, inadecuate weapons and clothes (while you had the PARA, Royal MArines, SAS, and the rest of british army). Our airforce only had 5 as-exocet missiles (yeah, five !!!!!). Our subs didn't fire torpedoes well (in reality didn't do because the system had a bad function, too old in all of 3 subs) our aircraft carrier didn't functioning well, adittionally UK had the nuclear sub HMS Conqueror (that anulated the argentine navy, we didn't have something like that!). Anything more ? yeah, our armed forces was unexperienced in modern combat and there a lots of things more that I will not explain all of them, but believe me, you had all the facilities and chances to win, and also lucky: many, many of our bombs dating from the WWII did not exploted on your HMS ships. Considering these things I think we did a very decent role, our airforce was incredible, even if we had a bad estrategic military leaders.
@@mharg6408 So your complaining saying that it was unfair because we had help from NATO, may i remind you that NATO were the ones trying to resolve the situation politically, the British military were the ones who sailed all the way down to the south Atlantic to recapture the British sovereign territory which was invaded by the Argentine forces Illigally, we the Brits had no military assistance from any other country. And before you say that the Americans helped us, they sent Al haig down to Buenes Aries to try to get them to leave using politics. The only military force that was sent down to fight the Argies were the British. Also you said that the Argentine forces were out numbered but that was after the British Invasion to recapture the Falklands, when the Argies attacked we only had 57 Royal marines on the Island but the Argentine forces attacked with 550 commandos and 80 frogmen, so if your gonna complain then we can too mate.
@@mharg6408 Also its not our fault that the Argies weapons were out dated because they could have upgraded them at any time but the dictator that ran the country was a bloody idiot.
I know it is not the fault of the UK that we had old weapons that didn't function well or directly even doesn't function, same with the erroneus strategic from high military leaders and the Military Junta that they did not imagine that their movement would trigger a war (one of the motives to be all bad planified). What I'm tryng to say is that you did not something as "imposible", Argentina was maybe the number 30 armed forces of the world, unexperienced in modern combat, what possition do you think the UK had at that time ? also you try to minimize the help of USA, France, we don't had the chances to probe the Harriers (like you did with the Mirages), we couldn't acess anymore to the Exocet misiles because France help the UK, there's no assistense to Argentina like you had in the Ascension Island with USA, you send all the fucking Royal Navy fleet, our aircrafts were from the 50's, 60's, and a few constructed in the 70's (of who also we didn't had too much in cuantities) against the Harriers with sidewinders. Our troop were composed of guys of 18, 19 years, bad trained (a lot of them with only one mounth of conscription instruction), with food necessities, inadecuate weapons and clothes (while you had the PARA, Royal MArines, SAS, and the rest of british army).
I remember following these events at the time and feeling sorry for the Argentinians. Many of them were very young and probably unwilling conscripts and I doubt that any of them had any clear idea what they were up against. They were dug in but the casualty figures speak for themselves. It was a senseless waste of life by a preening fascist dictator.
People who do not know about the war say that there was a lot of advantage on the British side, it is a lie, since the war was not expected they did not take much ammunition or food, that affected the Argentine combat level, but taking the 300 lives lost in the Belgrano (300 casualties), 300 Argentines and 200 British died on the islands ground
Err... the “hapless conscripts” were led by professionals and had Marine and Special Forces units deployed next to them. They occupied ALL the high ground, having 2 months to prepare sangars in the rock formations, behind mine fields, covered by interlocking fields of support fire from professional artillery units, snipers with infrared vision and reinforcements.
The narrative of “poor Argentina” is a pathetic excuse to cover their comprehensive defeat, in every engagement.
In the Royal Navy, or more specifically the Royal marines, there is a run with full gear called "Yomping" After the royal marines lost their helicopter transport , they ran across a large section of the Falkland's, full pack to then fight for 48 hours an win..That run is called yomping it.
Who told you that? Yomping is not running, it is marching while carrying gear. What the British army would call tabbing and I believe the Americans call rucking.
That why we can wipe the floor with .most other armys 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@michaelj132 poor soul armchair operator
Yomp - Your own marching pace.
Tab - Tatical advance to Battle.
@@Grayman58 Putin smiles
When the USA president said to Maggie ' Why don't you let them have the Falkland's She replied..'why dont you give Hawaii back to the Hawaiians' - nice.
And then Reagan promptly did an arms sale, LOL.
The Americans also offered an aircraft carrier though.
@@burstcity3832 Well sort of. They offered the Iwo Jima which was an assault ship not a carrier, it was in San Diego in another ocean and we had to lose one of ours first. Oh and there would be no US Navy crew or aircraft available.
It was a thoroughly disgraceful offer as it would have been impossible to get a Royal Navy crew to SD, train them how to fight the ship and then get it round Cape Horn in Mid Winter (the Panamanians would have refused transit in solidarity with the Argies) inside 3 months. The war would have ben lost.
@Scott Johnson Well said Scott. Biden is blatantly anti British and has meddled in our domestic affairs just like Obama did in 2016.
Biden has refused to bin the penal tariffs raised by Trump when he was having a row with the EU over Airbus which of course affected us. Once we left the EU we deleted all the EU's penal tariffs on the USA to show good will and he should have binned the US tariffs but didn't, Worse he is now saying he won't to make us back down against the EU over fishing and the NI Protocol.
He did of course remove the same tariffs for the EU. What a despicable tw*t that man is.
And the real joke is he apparently has more English than Irish blood. Someone researched his bloodline and found the Biden family line stretches back to William H. Biden, born in the late 1780s in Sussex, England.
@Scott Johnson No worries about spelling mate you get your points across.
I am a lifelong Tory and first voted in 1970 aged 23 but for me Johnson is a now a liability over too many issues despite good efforts over COVID and vaccines and of course Brexit. They lost Oswestry to the LibDems ffs! Now is the time for change and to get someone prepared to bat for the UK.
My only hope is that the new Trade Secretary Trevelyan seems to be very capable, is prepared to call a spade a shovel and is being very 'direct' with her Yank counterpart over these tariffs.
Bottom line is they are illegal under WTO rules so we should not be faffing about we should just make a formal complaint to the WTO and let everyone see what a pratt this President is.
The only British PM since Churchill that had a spine. There's talk of people of color or women in leading roles these days.... It doesn't matter what your gender or skin colour is. It matters that you're a good, strong leader. And we haven't seen one in the UK for years. Thatcher was a badass.
Anthony Eden had a spine, he failed to retake the Suez canal but only because the USA hung Britain and France out to dry financially, with a pretend moral high ground. (America would have been all for it if it was the Panama canal on the line wouldn't they.)
As much as many hated her, Margaret Thatcher wasn't one to be pi$$ed around. When the US were attempting to broker a peace deal, one Senior US guy asked Maggie. "why are you so bothered about it, it's only a little island thousands of miles from your homeland?", to which Maggie replied "oh, you mean like Hawaii?"............
Though I am not a supporter I agree.
The English are white Caucasian it does matter the non-whites share no ancestry with the whites living within the British isles
@TheRenaissanceman65 true, the greatest leaders need a crisis to lead through. If not for war napoleon would have been long forgotten, like Nelson, Wellington, marlborough, etc.
A bunch of young guys forced onto an island against their will and Prince Andrew turns up, and they say that history doesn't repeat itself?
We could do with a few like Lord Carrington in the Government today!
Empire strikes back 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💙💙💙
@paul gorman not really, just not classified as an empire no more. The empire still lives and breaths.
@paul gorman we have 15 Commonwealth realms, 14 overseas territories and 3 crown dependencies that sun, is still yet to set
@paul gorman you should really educate yourself on the whole school meal matters instead of being fed lies from labours lefites
@paul gorman “wake up” 😂 I know everything I need to know actually researched the facts and statistics instead of allowing myself to be force fed a load shite by a bunch of left wing loonies
@@Joshie_-oz9vz It's gross that you take pride in our history of colonialism and oppression. The British Empire is still alive today in the sense that a great number of countries previously colonised are still struggling with the colonial legacy. The extraction and destruction of entire states, millions of lives ruined, and what have we to show for it today? The UK is highly unequal, poverty grows, and weird patriots like yourself long for an age in which the UK is anything but the laughing stock it is today. If you want people to respect the UK then start by recognising the atrocities of an Empire, and work toward a land of equitability and fairness.
the balls of Argentina for thinking they could casually invade British territory and get away with it.
Have spent some time at Lejuene off and on - always liked the USMC.
'' the most deadly part of the force is HMS Superb''
HMS Conqueror: hold my beer
*Argentine flagship go boom boom*
@@Omega4Productions : And then the rest of the Argie navy runs for home.
I wonder what happened to its logbook. 😉
New Zealand's PM at the time Rob Muldoon offered Britain the use of a frigate.
I can't remember if that offer was taken up but it was a genuine offer and we had, and still have, little to give to our allies in times like this.
It was less a use of a frigate directly, but a new Zealand frigate did replace a British one in a force so the British one could be deployed to the Falklands
I went as a medic aboard the Canberra and wrote a best selling book about it called 'The Band That Went To War'. I also came back from the war with an unusual souvenir, a signed 'thank you card' from the enemy!
I miss this kind of reporting. Just the bare restating of currently known facts, and pre-recorded input from either key players or experts on the subject. No professional pundits, live on air to inject their worthless opinions and steer a narrative. 24-hour news is what killed journalism
Don't forget the Vulcan bombers that flew longest bombing runs in the history of the RAF to stop the Falklands runway being used by Argentine jets. Without them it would have been impossible.
Great upload, particular thanks for leaving that ad in.. Absolute gold.
“Less likely a British Invasion of the islands”
Hindsight is wonderful
"Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia. God save the Queen."
0:30 Our coverage begins with Tom Fenton in London. PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND
The footage of HMS invincible was from Portsmouth.
@@sshep86 But Invincible wasn't the flagship, as stated in the report - it was Hermes. Even when Hermes went back to Britain after the war, the admiral didn't transfer his flag to the Invincible, but to HMS Bristol, the unique Type 82 Destroyer.
I was present on the waterfront at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour in September 1982 to see both HMS Invincible and HMS Bristol return from the South Atlantic.
patriotism? national unity? modern britain values he opposite of that these days and its depressing :L
Nationalism by occupying other countries..
Don't worry uk will become something else in 50 to 100 else. It will die pathetically. 😀
@@what-oy8il iyif we get a decent government then we will survive but we will have to ditch the US and other western countries.
@@what-oy8il 'Die pathetically?' You realise the Royal Navy are the most powerful maritime force in all of Europe, right?
@@TheBankTrain Which does not say much when most of eu armies and navies are a joke. Whole of eu basically depends on its granddady USA. Shamefull. Uk isn't much different, lost its empire and even some scots want to be independent. If I was British I would be ashamed.
Can I still get one of those new amigo cameras?
try the thrift shop, you may be lucky
England ??? Get it right it’s The UK
I know right, if it annoys the Scots and the Welsh, it annoys me because it annoys them.
Exactly calling the UK "England" is just so wrong as it's the United Kingdom calling it one of the nations goes against the name and point of the country
And saying "british" at the same time 😤
@KILLER DIAMOND well only a little, I get annoyed because l like all the countries that make up the UK. I live in England and frequently visit Wales and Scotland and I get abuse by the people there because they don’t like the English.
It’s quite sad but I get angry when they say England as the whole of the UK because it gives them more reason to be angry
@KILLER DIAMOND I’ve never been to Northern Ireland tho
Fun fact HMS Invincible was only operating on one Prop as the other was non functioning as it sailed out very elegantly.
True that, didn’t she have a slight gearbox problem?
Scots are born fighting Argies born crying
I thought Scots were born with inferiority complexes.
@@ministryofanti-feminism1493 Only Scots who suffer from Braveheart syndrome
Why would those superheroes have an inferiority complex could someone explain to me as I think that they are brilliant?
I was expecting the BBC World Service message and I got Miss Piggy instead - did they have a crystal ball in to the future of the BBC in the 20s..?! lol
Not likely: pork is haram.
@@nemo6686 I think he's onto something, they are proper muppets.
Argentina: It's JUST the British NAVY!! i mean, what could possibly go wrong.
British Navy: ho ho ho and a bottle of DOOM
Argentina was thinking reasonably that no way a Country coming back from the largest world war would waste resources and men to capture some small islands 13 000 kilometres away from their homeland
14 years old and from Portsmouth, I was there to watch the taskforce sail.
last real show of force for the British. they had so much power back in the day.
Yes, because Iraq and Afghanistan didn't happen...
Drained away over the years by mandarins.
"The third option, least likely, is a British invasion of the Islands." ... ... ... ...
The British empire lives on.
The most surprising thing about this video is that this happened so long ago that there were MPs serving who had been there since the end of WW2 🤯
How good is this news coverage. Wow.
She would have got brexit in one go,
Nicht ohne eine Mehrheit im Parlament!Sorry dude!
@@MH-bl1fe d sorry I didn't understand what you had written as I don't speak Indian, ,,
merlin the magician it’s not Indian...
@@Horizon301. well enlighten me what is it
merlin the magician not Indian. It’s German, it means not without a majority in Parliament.
8000 miles from uk with no proper air cover against a larger force on land and air and won
nuff said we wasn’t lucky the argies were in equipped and poorly trained
You werent lucky, you were helped by the USA and the NATO.
@@alexm7743 it was just us. NATO and Yanks stayed neutral.
@@alexm7743 Wrong NATO was obviously on the UK side but it was the UK who did all the fighting
@@thatsmadcrazy8953 I did not talk about the fighting... I said that thanks to the US help on inteligence, supply, combustible, etc...you won the battle.
Whole World: _"Britain won't sail 8000 miles, to retake a lump of rock!"_
Maggie Thatcher: _"And I took that personally..."_
Britannia. Where the _The Sun Never Sets._
F about with us, and find out.
I wish our modern day politicians had half the integrity of Lord Carrington
The British kicked their ass with a quickness. They kicked them off the islands, without any assistance from other NATO countries, and president Regan at the time violated Article 5 of NATO, so the British did it on thier own and were very successful at retaking the islands.
British army is a joke, US would crush Britain without trouble
@@SergyMilitaryRankings They were not fighting against the US, they kicked Argentinas ass. Besides the UK and the US are close Allies. As is Canada and Australia
@@deltaboy767 only because Argentina lost support back home, Britain couldn't even win a war today lol, nothing but a pale imitation of the old superpower that Britain once was pre WWI
@@SergyMilitaryRankings You do realize that the UK France and the US are the three NATO countries that have Nuclear weapons. And I'll repeat myself one last time. The US and the UK are close Allies. If one goes to war we all do.
The British won because they are used to defending small islands with crap weather...
Except they were attacking an island here 😁
I remember those days. I was married to a British soldier, and living in Germany. My children were worried that their father would be going to The Falklands.
My insurance company was worried that I'd go, and wanted to renege.
As I couldn't tell them if I was going or not, they cancelled my coverage.
Love how you included the Polaroid advert 😂
If only HMS Vanguard was there in that moment, at least one first and last battle before leaving service
Shortest also.
She would be sailing almost immune to many weapons. Excets would be a joke to her thick WW2 armour steel.
Only threat that could seriously sink her would be torprodes, and that means closing in on a ship designed and built to destroy enemy warships in brutal slugfests... kinda nope.
@@alexh3974 Exocet would probably go above the thickest part of the belt armor, as there is pictures of them doing so in test firings, where it would go trough like knife in to butter. US operated Iowa-class battleships all the way to 1990's and even they had those bad boys strapped full of CIWS as there is no point testing your luck against anti-ship missiles, simply because you have armor concentrated on a bunch of areas. And closing in to a battleship would be no issue for a submarine, which are really the only modern naval vessel that still mainly uses torpedoes and thus the most realistic option to go out and search for capital ship targets like that
Vanguard deserved so much better, she deserved a post-war career like the Iowa
And the cheeky Argies never touched those rocks again
I think one of the more interesting comments from this was at 0:53, saying the country hasn't seen this level of unity in years. It seems to be a recurring theme. Long periods of either peace or nothing particularly interesting happening, then as soon as a genuine emergency or threat emerges, people rally around the cause.
We see it today with the vaccine rollout, despite a lot of people in previous months saying it would be a disaster, we saw all the moaning before the London Olympics before everyone got behind it and it turned out to be a great time.
The problem seems to me to be that if we aren't given a collective problem to solve, thing quickly just descend into self-fighting and pretty squabbles. I wish we'd be able to create a national 'purpose' that we'd be able to work towards that we could largely agree upon, but it seems we'd rather just chatter about the royals and bicker about brexit ad infinitum.
RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES
🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
US would blow your ass along with your Tea and your fucked up acent
@@P4Tri0t420 Like they did with your country twice??
@@P4Tri0t420 we're allies, you're not gonna do that
@@P4Tri0t420 first of all, it’s a song
Second, we’re literally allies and it sounds like you’re team fuck-up (Argentina)
@@P4Tri0t420 Also, fucked up accent? Literally pronounce stuff properly.
And your messages are confusing, call yourself a patriot but use Russian characters. So are you Russian or American and if you are a yank, doesn’t seem very patriotic does it?
I wonder what the Argentinian soldiers were thinking when they heard that a British armada was on its way to them.
If I was an Argentinian and heard that the British send the armada and the SAS to retake the Falklands, I would’ve shit myself and swam back to Argentina
I think something on the lines of OH Fuck. This might not have been a good idea. Many countries, including the US and Russia didn't think we'd go. Or win.
I suspect that their officers didn't tell them much more than they needed to know for that day. No sense letting them sit in suspense for two weeks.
They probably thought, 'why are journalists naming a British task force after a 400 year old Spanish term for 'army?'
They didn't even give them food, so i doubt they gave them any true information.