What Argentina's Garrison on South Georgia Did When the SAS Came Down Off the Glacier
Battles of Britain: War Stories
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On the 26 of April, 1982, in the wardroom of the British frigate HMS Plymouth, an Argentine naval officer named Alfredo Astiz signed a surrender. He was thirty. He had held Leith Harbour on South Georgia with a small party of navy commandos, and the night before he had refused to give it up. Four days earlier, a few miles from his harbour, British special forces had been trapped on the Fortuna Glacier, and two of the three helicopters sent to fetch them had crashed. What changed his mind, and what the rest of the garrison did, is the part almost nobody tells.
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The British marine shot the sailer cos he thought the sailor had been ordered to scuttle the sub. ✌️
What Argentina's Garrison on South Georgia Did When the SAS Came Down Off the Glacier
Battles of Britain: War Stories
4,681 views
On the 26 of April, 1982, in the wardroom of the British frigate HMS Plymouth, an Argentine naval officer named Alfredo Astiz signed a surrender. He was thirty. He had held Leith Harbour on South Georgia with a small party of navy commandos, and the night before he had refused to give it up. Four days earlier, a few miles from his harbour, British special forces had been trapped on the Fortuna Glacier, and two of the three helicopters sent to fetch them had crashed. What changed his mind, and what the rest of the garrison did, is the part almost nobody tells.