Watch this on the news as a 9 year old boy from London made me want to join the British army 🇬🇧 10 years later I was at RAF mount pleasant starting my 4 month tour with the resident infantry company loved the place the terrain was unbelievable the paras and royal marines really did the British forces proud seeing the place with my own eyes really did make me respect them men who tabbed and yomped over the Falkland Islands 🇬🇧 to Stanley 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Look at Britain now, she left her back door wide open just like Singapore in 19412 and got invaded this time by stone age invaders, talk about British military competence.
@@crocodiletears6078 Man, British military do not run the immigration and border control. That’s the purview of the civilian authorities and their masters, the politicians.
@@crocodiletears6078 I wouldn't call the Imperial Japanese military "stone-age", unfortunately that was the assumption of the "advanced" and "civilized" Europeans that all Asian countries were backwards... meanwhile the Japanese navy handily defeated the Russians as early as 1905, and no, not in canoes with bow and arrow.
as a chilean I'm very pleased Argentina lost that war.... the expansionist argentine junta wanted to attack Chile after they occupied the Falklands islands, asking Peru to join in, eventhough Chile wasn't in a condition to defend itself, mainly because of an arms embargo against my country. So I'm thankful to the British forces for stopping Argentine expansionist policies during de 70s and 80s and I'm glad my country helped a little bit with this british victory. Long live Chile and the UK. Saludos!
As our convoy of buses drove through Montevideo to fly back to Brize Norton, UK, in 1982, the people came out onto the streets and cheered the convoy. Quite a feeling, The junta nearly ruined that beautiful country of Argentina.
I’m quite impressed with Major Dawson, CO of the Gurkha regiment. He spoke to them in their native language, and also with the typical little head gesture common in people from the sub continent.
they lost in a humiliating way, and their vile actions wiped out any honour they might have had. A truly shameful episode in Argentinian history. Now they know why we are called GREAT Britain.
+Rufus Chucklebutty why a shame? Shame is being a World power getting kicked by a Third Wolrd Country that has an inferior tecnology. Royal Navy was no longer the queen of the seas buddy.
+Rufus Chucklebutty JAJAJJAJJAJ 400 brutish dead and 1000 wounded?uk WON NOTHING!BRAVO ARGENTINA!You are a typical brutish:IGNORANT ,drunken and STUPID!MALVINAS ARGENTINAS,LOSER!
Don Rufus: El papel del Reino Unido fue triste. Un país tercermundista en una campaña improvisada le dio fuertes golpeas al entonces segundas FF.AA. de la OTAN. Den gracias que los rusos venían en caída en esa época, sino en tres días estaban en el Canal.
Actually, it's British because we're harder than anyone else who's asserting any claim to it. Doesn't matter who did what or when. It's ours because we say it is and we'll fight anyone who says different. Same reason Gibraltar is ours. You wont like it but it's the truth.
That is your truth buddy just because you have a "Mighty" army doesn't mean you are some kind of God who the fuck you fuckers think you are? Good thing is that there are countries like Argentina that can show you that you are not powerful and you will never be.
I take it you're another sad Argentinian who can't accept hat the British sailed 8,000 miles, with a third of the manpower you had available and slaughtered you. Thatcher should have nuked the Presidential Palace just to teach you fascists a lesson.
You need to watch the film. Don't they even teach you backward bastards how to even use a toilet???My children learned that by the time they were two. I take it that was too advanced for your scumbag army?
'Hate and Anger'? Not me. I couldn't give a damn about your country. You should, however, have the common decency to get down on your knees and thank us for delivering you from a Fascist Dictatorship.
+Gaby Esteban ou, what a shocking news - so that were USA who defeated you in Falklan war? British were just "hidin behind them"? Tell me why argentinians who write here are such a fuck'n idiots?
Maybe if the Argentine soldiers had fought half as hard as the keyboard warriors in this comment section they might have won but they didn't they got their backside kicked off our islands and back to the mainland. They are also lucky it was a professional military that did it or a lot less of them would have ever got back home after the things they did during their very short occupation. Those islands are british territory mostly because that's what the islanders want and always will be and if any future Argentine government is stupid enough to try taking them again we will kick your backside again and hopefully next time finish the job. Not very likely though as your military is worse now then it was in 82 and the British military is greatly improved would be less of a conflict and more like an easy training exercise now. You had a go and you screwed it up live with it, get over it and let it go because you've got far bigger problems to solve in your country then trying to claim something that never was and never will be yours.
totally agree.. had the best British units against poorly led and motivated Argentinian coscripts.. ... Their were reports of Argentinian troops with no food and no officers 6 miles from Port Stanley where there was plentiful supplies of both .. the main problem for the British arm was trying not to get their offices shot a bit too 'gung ho' ..but it does inspire the men though, who need offices if the men are going forward..
I agree,next time Argentina will be come part of the UK... They're lucky the UK is honorable & simply wanted their territory & people back. Otherwise they could have kept going & taken the entire damn country & Argentineans would all be British today...And before the Argentinean keyboard warriors start on me about how dishonorable the British are etc etc, I'll remind you that the British weren't the one's that placed artillery in between residential houses & civilian areas! It WAS the British that took excessive casualties rather than fire into those civilian areas, because unlike the uncivilized Argentineans the British were unwilling too risk innocent civilian lives & as a result good honorable men paid the ultimate price! I have a feeling if those brave honorable soldiers had of been given the choice between sacrificing themselves or firing artillery into residential and/or civilian areas, the results would have been the same, because that's what TRUE honorable soldiers & REAL men do!
Like you did in 1833 when we take next time the islands we will kick out your ugly population, just like you did with the gauchos and the people living there.
@@Administrator_O-5 everything in its time, decolonization will come, but I prefer independent islands that of indiaterra, and I'm sure they are honorable , Gary "Louis" Sturge ,Stewart McLaughlin
@@winstonchurchill586 In a War there is not Good and Bad people. There only people who follows his ideology and ideas. (sometimes, not in the best ways)
Callate chileno chupa culo sorete traicionero cobarde ustedes estan echo para sufrir dios t No tiene lastima por ustedes por eso sufren de temblores rios que inunda las casas de carton que viven asi que serra el orto
When General Mario Menendez surrendered his forces, he went against established Argentine military doctrine. Surrender is only an option when casualties reach 50 percent and when expended ammunition reaches 75 percent. Prior to the surrender, General Galtieri in Buenos Aires had a heated telephone exchange with Menendez, demanding the latter fight to the last man. By that time, Argentine military discipline and morale had already broken down. British forces captured over four million rounds of 7.62MM and 11,000 105MM rounds, 14 flyable helicopters among other hardware.
11,000 105mm shells?, you must be kidding, in all the books I have read it is claimed the Argie Oto Melara guns had expended practically all their ammunition.
I think at some point the 50% casualties and no ammunition goes out the window ..when surrounded on high ground with a determined well trained force and incoming artillery .. I remember a British Doctor having a conversation after the battle, with Mendendez he was distort, but the DR said he's saved more lives than he will ever know by surrendering..
@@georgesteven9644 It starts with an impression of Stanley being turned into rubbish dump by the Argentinians at 5:28... and ends with that sentence "The Argentines had an odd way of impressing the Falklanders to the Argentine way of life" - implying that this is the Argentine way of running things...
Yeah, I tend to agree. The problem with Argentina is that it's behaving like a petulant teenager blaming everyone else ("It's so UNFAIR!") instead of knuckling down to hard work to improve its GDP, quality of life and international standing, i.e. becoming a proper, grown-up nation.
For Argentina,there is only the fruit of Defeat. Knowing Britain will not talk to them,EVER about the falklands. Now that must be painfull.,I Imagine. But I cannot feel their pain,Because we won and with victory comes the spoils of war. The island belong to the Islanders. The oil will be developed,the fishing protected. No.. No pain here.All is as it should be thank's to our armed forces.
You mean the OC going over the brief for the next 24hrs, that part? If so, bang on. To anyone reading - make no mistake, that Officer meant business and was deadly serious about his intent to fight and win. Don't be fooled by the 'posh' accent.
Do all your Generals lead like Moore. What’s wrong with him , hiding on ships ,drinking tea a top priority. Thank goodness your brave troops don’t lead like these Generals. Passive leadership at best but good job soldiers
Prefiero luchar que vivir de rodillas como chile , arrodillado con el imperio britanico aqueador del mundo. Luchar por la independencia como lo hizo El General San Martin que libero a chile por estar de rodillas con el imperio español.
@@vaalenn555 fue Chile bajo el liderazgo del Libertador Bernardo O"higgins quién organizó y financió la Escuadra y expedición libertadora del Perú sin la cual no habría cesado la dominación española en América. El gobierno rioplatense (que no era la Argentina actual) no puso un sólo centavo.
Mitch A: I reckon that's education rather than class you're picking up on, Mitch. I chose not to leave school and get an apprenticeship ( or factory job) at 15, instead studying for a degree and getting a decent career. I retired in my 50s.
@@philjamieson5572 no it's definitely class. The Ruperts were not working class, with the odd exception. The grunts were. More so then than now but still true.
we learn english and spanish at school in Gibralter .Most spanish people can tell we are Llanitos when we speak spanish as we have a distinctive accent ,different from main land spanish .
When anyone is laying in wait and has been for months. They know the exact area to fire on and its range, the best cover and do not have use energy to get there. Just open up at the people who are the other end of that spectrum. I challenge any one to try it and find out. Just because so called conscripts are firing doesnt mean anything.
Exactly, I don't think the Russians or Americans would have fared any better, as stated, it doesn't matter if you are a professional soldier or conscript, if you have the high ground ,know the range etc, This was also proved in the boar war, when the British fought a Malisha.
@@davidbrown2571 The Americans & Russians would have failed. They only use heavy artillery and or aerial fire power. Without that they ain't up to much. I was taught by a Sgt Bob Parry who was a sniper in the Falklands. He said Why send a man when you can send a bomb or a bullet. Unfortunately the British did not have that amount of bullets and bombs to throw around. You look at the terrain of Mt.Longdon. Attacking at night. Incredible when you think about it.
It doesn't appear that the Argentine military was improving the quality of life of the average Falklander, and certainly not winning over the local population by their behaviour.
The U.S. Navy considered a successful counter-invasion by the British to be 'a military impossibility'.[18] The United States initially tried to mediate an end to the conflict. However, when Argentina refused the U.S. peace overtures, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the United States would prohibit arms sales to Argentina and provide material support for British operations
43 Argentine sore losers dislike this video...I don't know what the Argentineans were thinking, did they they think the British were just going to say "oh bugger, let them have them."? 🙄 They should have known the Iron Lady wasn't going to stand by & do nothing & that they were going too be on the losing end regardless...the British would have just sent a larger force if this mission hadn't succeeded & if they had of asked for assistance the US would have gladly aided just for somebody to shoot at, but there was never any doubt the proud & mighty British would handle this properly! I look at the UK now & wonder what the hell happened...
Just shows how little you know. The US was arming and training the Argentine Junta along with all the other rightwing dictatorships of Central and South America. Thatcher was setting up massive arms deal with the Gulf family dictatorships and supporting the Afghan mujahideen at the time. That worked out well didn't it. Lol. This was the last pathetic gasp of a declining empire. Most people thought the Falklands were in Scotland. Who gives a shit today? No one. A sad joke. Read Forward into Hell by Vince Bramley for a true account of this war.
4:25 a bit annoying the line fussing about with dramatizing the Paras finishing first... considering the Paras were aided by helicopter and many RM Commandos yomped all the way from San Carlos water by foot? Seems a bit of an unfair comparison? Silly even. " They made it by helicopter quicker than you walked!" Well yes, I should expect so.
Argentina's case is not strong at all in the REAL world of International Law. In 1947,1948 and 1955, the United Kingdom offered to submit the case over the Falkland Islands Dependencies to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, but Argentina refused the all offers. Why? Argentina calims do NOT stand up as HARD evidence. If they had such a strong case they would have gone to the court ANYTIME in the last 50 years and won? Argentina avoids REAL LAW at EVERY turn. IT HAS TOO! .
facil los tribunales de la haya como todos los tribunales internacionales estan para favorecer a los poderosos xq estan manejados x ellos y sus inteteses...
Cameron doesn't control me. I live in Canada. Earning hundreds of thousands of dollars as a software engineer. It's great! I got a world class education from the UK, went to Oxford, and now I can live and work anywhere in the world. I choose not to work in Argentina, btw.
Argentina does not have an easy story. It is a country built by immigrants mostly Hispanic and Italian. The legislative and personality are quite different from the conformation of the countries of the British orbit. This country was the design of contempt for the colonial monarchies (reverse of the countries you mentioned). As positive was achieved great individual freedom and a level of education that is free even university. In return we are quite fluctuating in decisions...
@111jasy111 Britain has a veto at the UN, ergo Argentina won't get anything back. Besides, the islands belong to the people who live there. Let them decide.
Arg have always treated well and even the islanders are considered citizens. Before 82 Arg was in charge of fuel, flights, health service... There was never a return of that trust and the Argentine military in a bad decision invaded the islands. The problem is that we were educated to believe that the islands were our sometime. We dont respect self determination because most can not understand because that education of blind patriotism. For myself I find it hard to discuss it with my peers.
@clodomiromarcos That has nothing to do with what I was saying and technically Argentina was still under Spanish authority during the invasion of the Rio de la Plata so we lost to the Spanish
en 1845 cuando intentaron violar la soberania Argentina junto a los Franceses se tubieron q ir disculpandose ante la bandera ARGENTINA con 21 cañonazos ah y para esa epoca ya hacia 29 años q se habia declarado la Independencia q fue en 1816 tal vez esa parte de tu inmunda colonialista y asesina historia PIRATA...
Hello sr My name is luciano I'm from Argentina I was born in 1992 in Buenos Aires,my uncle died in that war you should know that many of the argentinians soldier didn't want to fight there they were pushed to go and defend the corruption of the government,most of the soldiers from that time respect a lot the British people,I hope you understand this,I love The United Kingdom and the British people 🇦🇷🇬🇧❤
argentina siempre se pone de pie por q es rica , tiene todo lo q puede necesitar un pais , mineria , agua mineral , acuiferos rios , cataratas bosques , selvas , todos los climas , tempanos de hielo , petroleo , gas y pronto tendremos 2 islas mas
Hay una cosa que los británicos, chilenos, estados unidos, gurkas y la otan nunca podrán sentir: el orgullo y convicción con la que pelearon los argentinos mismo sen ser pagos, pelearon por amor a la patria y no amor al dinero como su rival.
Well, for almost 400 British men, dozens of helicopters, fighters and warships, there was no "get home". And this was only after 3 weeks of real fighting and against a third-world country which ranks were filled with untrained conscripts... I am scared of even imagining the level of British losses against a decent adversary!!
I have a genuine question. Do you really believe what you have written ? You really think that the people on those islands are oppressed by the UK in some way, and really do want to be Argentinian ? You know they are about to have a referendum right ? Where they will vote, in a free and fair way that will be monitored by external observers, about the question of whether they want to be Argentinian or not. Has that been reported in your press ?
Well, the comments are a nice study in British nationalism. The former Empire now declares a population that 50 times fits into a London Stadium as a question of honor. What they do not tell you in the comments: 17 Years they negotiated with Argentina about giving back the Islands to Argentina, and they took away not only the First Class British citizenship, but also they planned to retire the last british ship to defend the Islands. There was a solution: Sale and lease back. But both weak governments needed a war, and a victory. Since 1982 Britain paid 2-digit billion pounds for a garrison on the Islands that totally destroyed the former social life on the Falklands.
@AworldwithoutNWO How can you say that the Brittish discovered the Falklands, first settled them, and have had them for over 150 years. There is no legit Argentine claim to the Falklands. I hope the Union Jack flies over the Falklands forever.
@111jasy111 Hardly deluded. The British and French were the first to settle the island long before Argentina ever became a nation. I'm sorry Argentina laying claim to the FALKLAND Islands is like the US laying claim to Cuba. We did it once, but we got over ourselves. I hope that one day Argentina cedes its claim to the Falklands and lets the locals live there in peace as British citizens as they have stated time and time again they would prefer.
Pero la guerra se podria ganar de otra manera, ellos tienen una guarnicion muy chica, se la podria atacar y despues retirarse de las islas amenazando con hacer lo mismo cada vez que ellos pongan tropas, con lo cual se los obligaria a dejar por lo menos 5000 hombres, artilleria mas aviones de combate etc y no menos de 5 buques de guerra + submarinos. Y esto siempre que no nos rearmemos! Simplemente no podrian con el costo!!! se tendrian que ir definitivamente!!!
From my point of view i can understand it quite well :-) sorry but it’s not my mother language. I used to study English long time ago. I read you with any problem, but it’s hard to express myself as 20 years ago used to do it
Who was first in 2Para obviously God bless those crazy bastards especially the 17 year old who died just kids fighting a well dug in enemy at night without firesupport as in 7RHA and living in shell scrapes etc
Which is interesting, because among the Allies in WW2, the UK was the only one to put itself in harm's way voluntarily. She fought Hitler ought of choice, not because she was attacked. In my eyes that makes her pretty noble. (France, the US and the USSR were attacked first.) She traded her empire to fight Hitler, because it was the right thing to do. Not exactly the move of a coward.
Watch this on the news as a 9 year old boy from London made me want to join the British army 🇬🇧 10 years later I was at RAF mount pleasant starting my 4 month tour with the resident infantry company loved the place the terrain was unbelievable the paras and royal marines really did the British forces proud seeing the place with my own eyes really did make me respect them men who tabbed and yomped over the Falkland Islands 🇬🇧 to Stanley 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Very well put 👏
I watched it as a 9 year old and joined the army
The infantry, Para and Marine units performed superbly during this war. I joined the army as a direct consequence of this war and glad I did.
Sim Deck
Good on you.
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Thankyou for sharing this, my dad is on here. He was a good man who had a tough job to do. Something that lived with him for the rest of his life.
+QU3STION5 my dad's name is Brian Joinson and he was in 2 para.
QU3STION5 your bulldog is perfect!
My dad too, Welsh guards. Went down on the QE2. Paul Raven
@@mot3824 Those lads had it rough mate. Respect to them all.
I am retired US Army and had the pleasure of serving with some great men from 2 Para. My hat is off to your Father. You have every reason to be proud.
damn you Brits know how to get in and get a job done..
Look at Britain now, she left her back door wide open just like Singapore in 19412 and got invaded this time by stone age invaders, talk about British military competence.
Had plenty practice .
@@crocodiletears6078 Man, British military do not run the immigration and border control. That’s the purview of the civilian authorities and their masters, the politicians.
@@crocodiletears6078 I wouldn't call the Imperial Japanese military "stone-age", unfortunately that was the assumption of the "advanced" and "civilized" Europeans that all Asian countries were backwards... meanwhile the Japanese navy handily defeated the Russians as early as 1905, and no, not in canoes with bow and arrow.
@@crocodiletears6078 truth hurts i see ,indian troops were at singapore 99% not brits
as a chilean I'm very pleased Argentina lost that war.... the expansionist argentine junta wanted to attack Chile after they occupied the Falklands islands, asking Peru to join in, eventhough Chile wasn't in a condition to defend itself, mainly because of an arms embargo against my country.
So I'm thankful to the British forces for stopping Argentine expansionist policies during de 70s and 80s and I'm glad my country helped a little bit with this british victory.
Long live Chile and the UK. Saludos!
Chile 👍👍🇬🇧
🇨🇱❤️🇬🇧
Plus, your lot saved the lads of Top Gear from Argentinian Hooligans. 🇨🇱
As our convoy of buses drove through Montevideo to fly back to Brize Norton, UK, in 1982, the people came out onto the streets and cheered the convoy. Quite a feeling, The junta nearly ruined that beautiful country of Argentina.
I Love Chile One Of Our Best Friends
I’m quite impressed with Major Dawson, CO of the Gurkha regiment. He spoke to them in their native language, and also with the typical little head gesture common in people from the sub continent.
Around about 3:03 someone is clearly heard to say, and in the most polite of tones, 'that was f*cking close.' God, how I do love being British!!!
all hail to Great Britain and Our Gurkhas From Nepal
The Gurkhas terrified the Argie conscripts. They thought the Gurkhas would gut them with their Kurkris.
@@nigelsheppard625 Argentinian newbies,they were on dope & drugs...
they didnt go to uk ..
Great footage. I was 15 when this happened and kept all the newspapers. Last proper war we fought. Very proud of our forces.
they lost in a humiliating way, and their vile actions wiped out any honour they might have had. A truly shameful episode in Argentinian history. Now they know why we are called GREAT Britain.
+Rufus Chucklebutty why a shame? Shame is being a World power getting kicked by a Third Wolrd Country that has an inferior tecnology. Royal Navy was no longer the queen of the seas buddy.
+Rufus Chucklebutty JAJAJJAJJAJ 400 brutish dead and 1000 wounded?uk WON NOTHING!BRAVO ARGENTINA!You are a typical brutish:IGNORANT ,drunken and STUPID!MALVINAS ARGENTINAS,LOSER!
Gerardo Alpha last time I looked the FLI are still British, and Argentina SURRENDERED. Gigedy gigedy !
Don Rufus: El papel del Reino Unido fue triste. Un país tercermundista en una campaña improvisada le dio fuertes golpeas al entonces segundas FF.AA. de la OTAN. Den gracias que los rusos venían en caída en esa época, sino en tres días estaban en el Canal.
Hace 77 años el Reino Unido se ufabana de enfrentar a Alemania, hoy en día su enemigo jurado es la Argentina. Vaya retroceso.
Actually, it's British because we're harder than anyone else who's asserting any claim to it. Doesn't matter who did what or when.
It's ours because we say it is and we'll fight anyone who says different.
Same reason Gibraltar is ours. You wont like it but it's the truth.
That is your truth buddy just because you have a "Mighty" army doesn't mean you are some kind of God who the fuck you fuckers think you are? Good thing is that there are countries like Argentina that can show you that you are not powerful and you will never be.
What? i can't understand anything you say,you just talk pure shit , you just insult because you can't face the truth bitch.
I take it you're another sad Argentinian who can't accept hat the British sailed 8,000 miles, with a third of the manpower you had available and slaughtered you.
Thatcher should have nuked the Presidential Palace just to teach you fascists a lesson.
You need to watch the film. Don't they even teach you backward bastards how to even use a toilet???My children learned that by the time they were two. I take it that was too advanced for your scumbag army?
'Hate and Anger'? Not me. I couldn't give a damn about your country. You should, however, have the common decency to get down on your knees and thank us for delivering you from a Fascist Dictatorship.
Respect to the British forces!
Unrespect to colonial invaders!
Tulaenelorto I agree, No respect for Argentina for what they did...
Fighting Force uk is FINISHED!The PIRATE EVIL NATION is gone!www.evilempirebook.com/
+Fighting Force Brits do not deserve respect. Always hidding behind USA. Along all modern history. The ex-empire is gone.
+Gaby Esteban ou, what a shocking news - so that were USA who defeated you in Falklan war? British were just "hidin behind them"? Tell me why argentinians who write here are such a fuck'n idiots?
Maybe if the Argentine soldiers had fought half as hard as the keyboard warriors in this comment section they might have won but they didn't they got their backside kicked off our islands and back to the mainland. They are also lucky it was a professional military that did it or a lot less of them would have ever got back home after the things they did during their very short occupation. Those islands are british territory mostly because that's what the islanders want and always will be and if any future Argentine government is stupid enough to try taking them again we will kick your backside again and hopefully next time finish the job.
Not very likely though as your military is worse now then it was in 82 and the British military is greatly improved would be less of a conflict and more like an easy training exercise now. You had a go and you screwed it up live with it, get over it and let it go because you've got far bigger problems to solve in your country then trying to claim something that never was and never will be yours.
totally agree.. had the best British units against poorly led and motivated Argentinian coscripts.. ... Their were reports of Argentinian troops with no food and no officers 6 miles from Port Stanley where there was plentiful supplies of both .. the main problem for the British arm was trying not to get their offices shot a bit too 'gung ho' ..but it does inspire the men though, who need offices if the men are going forward..
I agree,next time Argentina will be come part of the UK... They're lucky the UK is honorable & simply wanted their territory & people back. Otherwise they could have kept going & taken the entire damn country & Argentineans would all be British today...And before the Argentinean keyboard warriors start on me about how dishonorable the British are etc etc, I'll remind you that the British weren't the one's that placed artillery in between residential houses & civilian areas! It WAS the British that took excessive casualties rather than fire into those civilian areas, because unlike the uncivilized Argentineans the British were unwilling too risk innocent civilian lives & as a result good honorable men paid the ultimate price! I have a feeling if those brave honorable soldiers had of been given the choice between sacrificing themselves or firing artillery into residential and/or civilian areas, the results would have been the same, because that's what TRUE honorable soldiers & REAL men do!
Like you did in 1833 when we take next time the islands we will kick out your ugly population, just like you did with the gauchos and the people living there.
@@a.gallardo4321 bring it...
@@Administrator_O-5 everything in its time, decolonization will come, but I prefer independent islands that of indiaterra, and I'm sure they are honorable , Gary "Louis" Sturge ,Stewart McLaughlin
Great and important historical footage. Thanks.
Well done Britain, you are the good guys!
Unfortunately not everyone sees it that way
Invade any part of our sovereign territory and face the consequences. We will fight anywhere.
@@winstonchurchill586 In a War there is not Good and Bad people. There only people who follows his ideology and ideas. (sometimes, not in the best ways)
Callate chileno chupa culo sorete traicionero cobarde ustedes estan echo para sufrir dios t
No tiene lastima por ustedes por eso sufren de temblores rios que inunda las casas de carton que viven asi que serra el orto
The Paras are good boys. As you can see they got the job done, before the main army came.
When General Mario Menendez surrendered his forces, he went against
established Argentine military doctrine. Surrender is only an option
when casualties reach 50 percent and when expended ammunition reaches 75
percent. Prior to the surrender, General Galtieri in Buenos Aires had a
heated telephone exchange with Menendez, demanding the latter fight to
the last man. By that time, Argentine military discipline and morale had
already broken down. British forces captured over four million rounds
of 7.62MM and 11,000 105MM rounds, 14 flyable helicopters among other
hardware.
Then im glad that Menendez cared more about the lives of his men than for a piece of land.
11,000 105mm shells?, you must be kidding, in all the books I have read it is claimed the Argie Oto Melara guns had expended practically all their ammunition.
I think at some point the 50% casualties and no ammunition goes out the window ..when surrounded on high ground with a determined well trained force and incoming artillery .. I remember a British Doctor having a conversation after the battle, with Mendendez he was distort, but the DR said he's saved more lives than he will ever know by surrendering..
@@usarkarzts4207 Menendez era un cobarde inepto y el propio Galtieri lo puso como comandante...
The jock guards , it came down to the boot and baynoet
English were 99% of army in this war
@@paulmcdonough1093 Crap WE ARE ALL BRITISH
"The Argentines had an odd way of impressing the Falklanders to the Argentine way of life". 6:04 That's an example of British humour for you.
So Fine...
@@georgesteven9644
It starts with an impression of Stanley being turned into rubbish dump by the Argentinians at 5:28... and ends with that sentence "The Argentines had an odd way of impressing the Falklanders to the Argentine way of life" - implying that this is the Argentine way of running things...
@@iansoutryer3189 well British soldiers wouldn’t have left the place in such a mess
these are professional soldiers
Luis Guevara almost as pro as the IRA... now those guys knew how to kill limeys.
@@mickeyrat3369 It's a pity the British army weren't allowed to finished off !! 🏹 the IRA SCUM !!!.......
mickey rat ahh. Yank plastic paddy.
mickey rat and children, unborn babies, civilians and medical staff inside hospitals!!!!!!
@@mickeyrat3369 The Army killed a damn sight more of those IRA cowards
Amazing bravery and professionalism.
Versus newbies halfindian conscrypt...
I joined the Paras on the back of this British victory..
Yeah, I tend to agree. The problem with Argentina is that it's behaving like a petulant teenager blaming everyone else ("It's so UNFAIR!") instead of knuckling down to hard work to improve its GDP, quality of life and international standing, i.e. becoming a proper, grown-up nation.
This sounds like too many people in the US today.
For Argentina,there is only the fruit of Defeat.
Knowing Britain will not talk to them,EVER about the falklands.
Now that must be painfull.,I Imagine.
But I cannot feel their pain,Because we won and with victory
comes the spoils of war.
The island belong to the Islanders.
The oil will be developed,the fishing protected.
No.. No pain here.All is as it should be thank's to our armed forces.
The look of disgust on the Gurkha soldier’s face is telling. Surrender is simply not in their psyche.
The boss giving his opinion to his lads is proper stiff upper lipped Englishman.So proud I'm a brit we are genetically a tough proposition for anyone.
You mean the OC going over the brief for the next 24hrs, that part? If so, bang on. To anyone reading - make no mistake, that Officer meant business and was deadly serious about his intent to fight and win. Don't be fooled by the 'posh' accent.
america you clown always whipped you always will
The narration of the itv reporter is top notch.
I think this particular news reporter is Michael Nicholson attached to the task force he also covered part of conflict in Vietnam.
Respect to the Chileans that stood by us during the Falklands war.
Thank goodness Margaret Thatcher was PM at the time and had the backbone to send a task force to liberate the British Falkland Islanders.
I wonder what Starmer would do?
@@MichaelSaunders-y2mgod help us mate.
Some great footage I hadn't seen before.
Yorkies seem to be found in huge numbers in the paras,and marines.
Two thirds of our sixty trainees were from Yorkshire.1976, marines.
Gods County
What makes a Gurkha when it's raining shells ? He drinks some tea and listen music.
Been looking just for this kind of news footage, amazing!
Do all your Generals lead like Moore. What’s wrong with him , hiding on ships ,drinking tea a top priority. Thank goodness your brave troops don’t lead like these Generals. Passive leadership at best but good job soldiers
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Prefiero luchar que vivir de rodillas como chile , arrodillado con el imperio britanico aqueador del mundo. Luchar por la independencia como lo hizo El General San Martin que libero a chile por estar de rodillas con el imperio español.
@@vaalenn555 fue Chile bajo el liderazgo del Libertador Bernardo O"higgins quién organizó y financió la Escuadra y expedición libertadora del Perú sin la cual no habría cesado la dominación española en América. El gobierno rioplatense (que no era la Argentina actual) no puso un sólo centavo.
Interesting how you can still still hear the class system in the different accents of the offcers verses the enlisted men.
Mitch A: I reckon that's education rather than class you're picking up on, Mitch. I chose not to leave school and get an apprenticeship ( or factory job) at 15, instead studying for a degree and getting a decent career. I retired in my 50s.
@@philjamieson5572 no it's definitely class. The Ruperts were not working class, with the odd exception. The grunts were. More so then than now but still true.
we learn english and spanish at school in Gibralter .Most spanish people can tell we are Llanitos when we speak spanish as we have a distinctive accent ,different from main land spanish .
Ist a Lie? You can imagine where come saying three words...
When anyone is laying in wait and has been for months. They know the exact area to fire on and its range, the best cover and do not have use energy to get there. Just open up at the people who are the other end of that spectrum. I challenge any one to try it and find out. Just because so called conscripts are firing doesnt mean anything.
Exactly, I don't think the Russians or Americans would have fared any better, as stated, it doesn't matter if you are a professional soldier or conscript, if you have the high ground ,know the range etc,
This was also proved in the boar war, when the British fought a Malisha.
@@davidbrown2571 The Americans & Russians would have failed. They only use heavy artillery and or aerial fire power. Without that they ain't up to much. I was taught by a Sgt Bob Parry who was a sniper in the Falklands. He said Why send a man when you can send a bomb or a bullet. Unfortunately the British did not have that amount of bullets and bombs to throw around. You look at the terrain of Mt.Longdon. Attacking at night. Incredible when you think about it.
"Well,it started off as British soil,Argies barged in and we're here to kick em out"spoken like a true para.
Lol at 3:03 you can hear one of the film crew say, “That was fucking close”.
It doesn't appear that the Argentine military was improving the quality of life of the average Falklander, and certainly not winning over the local population by their behaviour.
Literaly the 3 Falklander that die was by an british error
Those Argentinians really know how to run a country, their own and some ones elses.
Don’t jack half through don’t mess with Brit infantry
Every time I hear a Rupert voice my arshole tries to crawl back up inside itself and my teeth are set jaggered
So turn you on? i understand...
Well done indeed to our amazing H.M. Forces. We will Remember those who fell: Forces and Falklands citizens.
Argentina...you are a disgrace.
Shame about the mixup between the Paras and the Marines taking the Surrender.
Exactly the beret colours are a bit of give away
@@MrStevecfc only if you are British
The U.S. Navy considered a successful counter-invasion by the British to be 'a military impossibility'.[18] The United States initially tried to mediate an end to the conflict. However, when Argentina refused the U.S. peace overtures, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the United States would prohibit arms sales to Argentina and provide material support for British operations
43 Argentine sore losers dislike this video...I don't know what the Argentineans were thinking, did they they think the British were just going to say "oh bugger, let them have them."? 🙄 They should have known the Iron Lady wasn't going to stand by & do nothing & that they were going too be on the losing end regardless...the British would have just sent a larger force if this mission hadn't succeeded & if they had of asked for assistance the US would have gladly aided just for somebody to shoot at, but there was never any doubt the proud & mighty British would handle this properly! I look at the UK now & wonder what the hell happened...
Just shows how little you know. The US was arming and training the Argentine Junta along with all the other rightwing dictatorships of Central and South America. Thatcher was setting up massive arms deal with the Gulf family dictatorships and supporting the Afghan mujahideen at the time. That worked out well didn't it. Lol.
This was the last pathetic gasp of a declining empire. Most people thought the Falklands were in Scotland. Who gives a shit today? No one. A sad joke.
Read Forward into Hell by Vince Bramley for a true account of this war.
Micheal Nicholson what a reporter.
3:07 he was gonna say łRA there lol
4:25 a bit annoying the line fussing about with dramatizing the Paras finishing first... considering the Paras were aided by helicopter and many RM Commandos yomped all the way from San Carlos water by foot? Seems a bit of an unfair comparison? Silly even. " They made it by helicopter quicker than you walked!" Well yes, I should expect so.
3 Para also walked all of the way.
Argentina's case is not strong at all in the REAL world of International Law.
In 1947,1948 and 1955, the United Kingdom offered to submit the case over the Falkland Islands Dependencies to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, but Argentina refused the all offers.
Why?
Argentina calims do NOT stand up as HARD evidence.
If they had such a strong case they would have gone to the court ANYTIME in the last 50 years and won?
Argentina avoids REAL LAW at EVERY turn.
IT HAS TOO!
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facil los tribunales de la haya como todos los tribunales internacionales estan para favorecer a los poderosos xq estan manejados x ellos y sus inteteses...
at last, an enlightened latin american. cheers, mate.
Cameron doesn't control me. I live in Canada. Earning hundreds of thousands of dollars as a software engineer. It's great! I got a world class education from the UK, went to Oxford, and now I can live and work anywhere in the world.
I choose not to work in Argentina, btw.
@rusoargento1
What!? USA and NATO had NO involvment. How many times must i say. Read about, research it.
Argentina does not have an easy story. It is a country built by immigrants mostly Hispanic and Italian. The legislative and personality are quite different from the conformation of the countries of the British orbit. This country was the design of contempt for the colonial monarchies (reverse of the countries you mentioned). As positive was achieved great individual freedom and a level of education that is free even university. In return we are quite fluctuating in decisions...
@111jasy111
Britain has a veto at the UN, ergo Argentina won't get anything back.
Besides, the islands belong to the people who live there. Let them decide.
Arg have always treated well and even the islanders are considered citizens. Before 82 Arg was in charge of fuel, flights, health service... There was never a return of that trust and the Argentine military in a bad decision invaded the islands. The problem is that we were educated to believe that the islands were our sometime. We dont respect self determination because most can not understand because that education of blind patriotism. For myself I find it hard to discuss it with my peers.
@aspiringdrummer17 the United Kingdom lost two wars with Argentina in 1806 and 1807...you know??..you must read book of story..and geography
You did not declare independence until 1816. So how did you manage that you were not even a country?
17:42 that was after goose green? or after longdon?
Longdon I think. Could be wrong though. The fact it was 150 prisoners does make it sound like it could be Goose Green though.
3:03 "That was fucking close."
Where were RAF Regiment in all this..?
Alastair West - Ascension Island
63 Sqn were there. Rapier deployed around Port SAN Carlos. RAF Regt Sqns Stagged on until 2005.
@@nicktrown With Royal Artillery...
Guarding the naffi as usual 😁
The soldiers wearing mustaches - old schools military men - good men.
What a miserable condition to fight in, cold, wet, snow and windy.
That's what the UK is like most of the year.
Just like the large Patagonia in Argentina
@clodomiromarcos That has nothing to do with what I was saying and technically Argentina was still under Spanish authority during the invasion of the Rio de la Plata so we lost to the Spanish
en 1845 cuando intentaron violar la soberania Argentina junto a los Franceses se tubieron q ir disculpandose ante la bandera ARGENTINA con 21 cañonazos ah y para esa epoca ya hacia 29 años q se habia declarado la Independencia q fue en 1816 tal vez esa parte de tu inmunda colonialista y asesina historia PIRATA...
GRACIAS HEROES DE MALVINAS!!!!!!
*Falklands to be more precise
I'm argentinian and very crazy becouse i'm a bull terrier bredeer 😞
Sheffield- Coventry-Atlantic Conveyor .....LOL exocet !!!
Even those losses...after the war ......made the Royal Navy develop to become stronger.
Wonder who got the last laugh mate 🇬🇧🤣
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Union flag flies over Stanley - LOL
"HMS Conqueror enters that chat"
"Belgrano gets kicked from the chat"
Although, interestingly, the new Argentine pope does seem to have a better attitude on that front than his predecessors...
Hello sr
My name is luciano I'm from Argentina I was born in 1992 in Buenos Aires,my uncle died in that war you should know that many of the argentinians soldier didn't want to fight there they were pushed to go and defend the corruption of the government,most of the soldiers from that time respect a lot the British people,I hope you understand this,I love The United Kingdom and the British people 🇦🇷🇬🇧❤
DESTROSAR9N EMOCIONALMENTE EN TODO AL EN3MIGO Y D3JARON SU BANDERA TR8COLR UK FALKLANDS 3SA 3S LA VEEEEEERDAD
@truckerfromreno MFW i'm an engineer student and you are the farmer
argentina siempre se pone de pie por q es rica , tiene todo lo q puede necesitar un pais , mineria , agua mineral , acuiferos rios , cataratas bosques , selvas , todos los climas , tempanos de hielo , petroleo , gas y pronto tendremos 2 islas mas
¿Por qué, has logrado encontrar dos islas en algún lugar que no están defendidas?
Eeehhhh???como esta Sudamerica hambrienta 13400k
UK LOS TIENEN ENDEUDADOS XXI POR GENERACIONES
Argentina is a 3rd world country.
**🇦🇷ISLAS MALVINAS 🇦🇷*
UNA CAUSA QUE SIGUE SIENDO JUSTA.
**VOLVEREMOS **
Hahaha dickhead
"You came, you saw, YOU LOST !
Ja ja ja Las Falkland son y seguirán siendo británicas!!
Seguro que sos un resentido chileno o mejicano, volveré con mi MAG al hombre a combatir.
@@eduardoguzman276 NO VOLVERÁN SERÁN ABOOOOOOONO EN EL PAÍS 32
19 year old infantryman in Germany
The argies poo in houses lol
Thats why we call ppl like them shithouses
5:30 what do you expect from a third world country
@clodomiromarcos all latin american countries in favor of argentina with the exception of chile.
Big up Chile 👏🤝👌
Rule Brittania , look at those Argies ,they couldnt wait to go home
@DaveWBedford Probably. They're not exactly renowned for cleanliness, hygiene, intelligence or basic human decency.
@EddieExile ...EU, don´t have legal valid in Latin America and those countries mentioned are disputed by neighboring countries...is all False...
Hay una cosa que los británicos, chilenos, estados unidos, gurkas y la otan nunca podrán sentir: el orgullo y convicción con la que pelearon los argentinos mismo sen ser pagos, pelearon por amor a la patria y no amor al dinero como su rival.
lol rule Britannia.we kicked your arses 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@rusoargento1
USA and NATO wasnt even in the conflict.
" and when we achived our independence we took control of them"
No you didn't. Sorry.
Thank you Mr Destruction. I love you too. I would give you a cookie but in youtube is not allowed to feed the animals.
Well, for almost 400 British men, dozens of helicopters, fighters and warships, there was no "get home". And this was only after 3 weeks of real fighting and against a third-world country which ranks were filled with untrained conscripts... I am scared of even imagining the level of British losses against a decent adversary!!
Dont be scared
Oooh...you're Scared??
No mate, you're another tragic Brit who's succumbed to the cult of self hate..
And judging by your name, you're a young puppy as well..
I have a genuine question. Do you really believe what you have written ? You really think that the people on those islands are oppressed by the UK in some way, and really do want to be Argentinian ? You know they are about to have a referendum right ? Where they will vote, in a free and fair way that will be monitored by external observers, about the question of whether they want to be Argentinian or not. Has that been reported in your press ?
Distancia entre Formosa y Asunción: 70 millas. Distancia entre Formosa y Buenos Aires: 580 millas. Por lo tanto, Formosa debe pertenecer a Paraguay.
Distancia entre Asuncion y Argentina: 70 millas, por lo tanto, Asuncion deberia ser Argentina
13:01 - interesting note - the last part especially.
Well, the comments are a nice study in British nationalism. The former Empire now declares a population that 50 times fits into a London Stadium as a question of honor.
What they do not tell you in the comments: 17 Years they negotiated with Argentina about giving back the Islands to Argentina, and they took away not only the First Class British citizenship, but also they planned to retire the last british ship to defend the Islands.
There was a solution: Sale and lease back. But both weak governments needed a war, and a victory.
Since 1982 Britain paid 2-digit billion pounds for a garrison on the Islands that totally destroyed the former social life on the Falklands.
@AworldwithoutNWO How can you say that the Brittish discovered the Falklands, first settled them, and have had them for over 150 years. There is no legit Argentine claim to the Falklands. I hope the Union Jack flies over the Falklands forever.
@111jasy111 Hardly deluded. The British and French were the first to settle the island long before Argentina ever became a nation. I'm sorry Argentina laying claim to the FALKLAND Islands is like the US laying claim to Cuba. We did it once, but we got over ourselves. I hope that one day Argentina cedes its claim to the Falklands and lets the locals live there in peace as British citizens as they have stated time and time again they would prefer.
unfortblament, that war was innesesary my soldiers and pilots day, and your marines too. We need tink more about that
typical brit humour,,well done guys...get it over and done with
Pero la guerra se podria ganar de otra manera, ellos tienen una guarnicion muy chica, se la podria atacar y despues retirarse de las islas amenazando con hacer lo mismo cada vez que ellos pongan tropas, con lo cual se los obligaria a dejar por lo menos 5000 hombres, artilleria mas aviones de combate etc y no menos de 5 buques de guerra + submarinos. Y esto siempre que no nos rearmemos!
Simplemente no podrian con el costo!!! se tendrian que ir definitivamente!!!
@DaveWBedford Yes. They do.
From my point of view i can understand it quite well :-) sorry but it’s not my mother language. I used to study English long time ago. I read you with any problem, but it’s hard to express myself as 20 years ago used to do it
Michael Nicholson.
Nowadays there no periodist like oldies.
with bollocks of titanium
Who was first in 2Para obviously God bless those crazy bastards especially the 17 year old who died just kids fighting a well dug in enemy at night without firesupport as in 7RHA and living in shell scrapes etc
3:03 haha
Which is interesting, because among the Allies in WW2, the UK was the only one to put itself in harm's way voluntarily. She fought Hitler ought of choice, not because she was attacked. In my eyes that makes her pretty noble. (France, the US and the USSR were attacked first.) She traded her empire to fight Hitler, because it was the right thing to do. Not exactly the move of a coward.
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Nice loser flag you got there
At 3.00 "THAT was fucking close..."