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Falkland Memories

Tuesday, June 12, 2007


The landscape of the Falkland Islands is peppered with reminders of the 1982 conflict with Argentina. The detritus left behind includes crashed aircraft, rusting field kitchens and thousands of land mines, but there are also many moving memorials to the dead.
Posted by hotbird at 9:37 AM

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      • Falklands commemorations
      • The Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel is a national...
      • Former college student Rear Admiral Jeremy Sanders...
      • Among the congregation was the widow of Lt Col "H"...
      • This week Baroness Thatcher addressed Falkland Isl...
      • Mr Blair has said going to war over the Falklands ...
      • Following the service the Queen laid the 255th sto...
      • On 13/14 June 1982 British troops mounted their fi...
      • A rusting Argentine marine field kitchen is still ...
      • Pieces of a Harrier jet, hit on 27 May, lie where ...
      • Near Goose Green lies 32-year-old Lt Nick Taylor, ...
      • Sheep sheds on the government-run farm at Goose Gr...
      • The Argentine cemetery near Darwin, East Falkland,...
      • Helicopters provided vital transport throughout th...
      • The British cemetery at San Carlos, the site of th...
      • Lt Colonel Herbert “H” Jones, of the Parachute Reg...
      • On 21 May 1982 Argentine pilot Major Carlos Tomba’...
      • An estimated 20,000 mines remain. Two officers wer...
      • The landscape of the Falkland Islands is peppered ...

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