Being Kind, Lenient to the Argentines Not an Option

Dear Fellow Earthlings,

On the 3rd of May 1982 the residents of the Falklands were able to gain sketchy reports that two patrol vessels of the Argentine Navy had met their ends. They were attacked and badly damaged (with one of them having sunk) some 85 kilometers east of Port Stanley when the Task Force Type 42 destroyers Glasgow and Coventry hit them with "Skua" missiles.

The Argentines were definitely losing more ships and more personnel at this point than the British were. Clearly, the Task Force was accomplishing many tasks!

The Task Force was under the command of Rear Admiral John Forster "Sandy" Woodward. So far the Task Force had knocked out the General Belgrano and now two patrol vessels. But Rear Admiral Woodward knew that there was a great likelihood that the British, too, would soon experience the pain of losing one or more ships.

Woodward knew that each Argentine ship in the vicinity of the Falklands possessed the capacity to do great harm to the Task Force -- and he would do his utmost to lower the risk of damage to his men and ships by sinking or at least seriously damaging as many Argentine vessels as he could.

After all, there was nobody in that far off corner of the world to help the 28,000 personnel of the Task Force but themselves! Being lenient and kind to the Argentine forces was not an option!

Steve Walker Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

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