it has now decided that a large task force will sail as soon as all preparations are complete
hms invincible will be in the lead and will leave port on monday
he'd done the job he dropped the bombs the the crew just descended into oops and knowledge and
everybody was punching the air and and we were sort of patting ourselves on the back
before the reality of the fuel situation set in again
we were now six hours from ascension with about four hours worth of fuel
we knew soon after we left ascension that hms sheffield had been attacked and destroyed
and that there were casualties so uh i think it was a question of proceeds house at all speed
there was a lot of drooping chins and a lot of scared people on board the lancelot uh
and i had to i guess in some instance take the lead and say this is what here we're here
for guys it is now a shooting match and we're on our way
the landing is not an end in itself the landing is just the beginning
there's going to be a lot of hard fighting afterwards and i then said it won't be a pig
once we got ashore we realized we didn't have air superiority these ships were very vulnerable
so we had to run all the stocks ashore into ajax bay
when i heard i thought oh my god this is awful
we had sent um the tristram in related ammunition and stuff for them on the understanding that the
landing craft would be there under orders to empty her and get her back the following night
what we didn't notice because citristrum was quite reasonably keeping radio silence was that
she was not unloaded galahad came finding tristram where he'd hoped to go and hide under this cliff
or not hide but be protected by the cliff so he anchored further out sitting down
somebody shouted air raid worn in red and i looked up and i saw the silhouette of an aircraft
overshoot the whole seconds later there was a loud bang and it all went orange it wasn't
until i had to get up to go to the treatment room that i realized that i had burped face in
the head i walked past this mirror and i just saw this like large beach ball and realized it was me
i was shot in the hip and i'd gone down tried to get up again and move
um when i rolled over when i had no support in my leg and the enemy took another two shots at me
tumble down was one of their last and strongest defensive positions literally outside stanley
we were very aware that we were going to take on the best the argentinians had to offer
gentlemen i've just heard that the white flag is flying over standard
we walked up the steps of the hospital and the argentinian guard was sat
with a pistol on his lap asleep
so john wilton and i smacked him with an smg and said we are here and he went oh
and and a lady opened the doors and looked at us she went british yes they were so
happy we said you're free now we pulled into southampton dock to be amazed and there was
thousands of people you know with banners and stuff like that all waiting for us to come home
all right
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