Falklands Hero by Jon Cooksey

Author:Jon Cooksey [Cooksey, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781844684571
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2012-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

The Argentine .50-calibre heavy machine gun which was a thorn in the side of 4 and 5 Platoons of B Company, 3 Para during the attack on Mount Longdon. Protected by additional machine guns and rifles it was at the heart of a formidable weapons complex. Photographed in situ by Capt ob Darby on 16 June 1982 it had been turned to fire on he pyramidal rock outcrop of Full Back – the final objective of 3 Para during the battle. Port Stanley is just visible in the distance centre left. (Bob Darby)

‘The hardest part of war… these were names I knew’. 3 Para dead in grey body ags being loaded aboard a Royal Navy Wessex at the evacuation base under Capt Bob Darby for the twenty mile flight to the temporary mortuary at Teal Inlet on the morning of 12 June 1982. (Bob Darby)

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