and played a vital role in Operation Black Buck during the Falklands War in 1982. The Black Buck combat missions saw the planes fly 3,889 miles from Ascension Island to Stanley on the Falkland ...

More help urged for forces veterans with PTSD Argentina reveals Falklands War abuse Two days before ... themselves on the SS Canberra near Ascension Island practising a new skill, beach landings ...

Ex-Tory Armed Forces minister Mark Francois said: ‘Britain fought a war to liberate the Falklands from a fascist ... Overseas ...

UK Defense Journal is reporting that the Naval Engineering Falkland Islands (NEFI ... who arrive in the UK by unauthorized means to Ascension Island. Multiple reports say ministers and officials ...

The Falklands War ... up to the Falklands War. The recent U.S. reinforcement of its military installations in the Philippines, Palau, and Guam/Northern Mariana Islands serves as counterpoint ...

I am, after all, in the Falklands. War is a common theme. About 250 miles off the coast of Argentina, the British territory consists of more than 700 islands and islets, sparsely settled by about ...

Whatever your opinion on the moral rights and wrongs of the Falklands War, it is inescapably one ... General Galtieri invaded the South Atlantic islands early in 1982, he set off a chain of ...

Giorgio and Irfon struck up an unlikely friendship as prisoner of war and guard On ... forces had landed on the Falklands to stake a territorial claim to the islands, which it calls the Malvinas.

There is also a base on Ascension Island, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Its existence proved vital for the 1982 recapture of the Falklands. Andrew Rosindell, the Tory MP and chairman of the ...

Paula O'Donnell, H-War Introduction: the Falklands and the legacies of empire 1. Adrift in the South Atlantic: the Falklands amid the turmoil of decolonisation 2. 'Dream island': the long prelude to ...

Asylum seekers should be sent to the Orkney Islands ... Falklands Islands, considered by the Home Office but rejected because public services were too limited and there were sensitivities about ...

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