Originally Posted by
Mogwi
Rather like the meeting of the heads with Maggie on 2nd April 82, where CAS said he couldn’t help, head pongo said he would require 30k troops to retake the islands and 1SL said “We will sail on Monday Ma’am”. (I paraphrase!) And we did. The only SHARs left behind were still on the production line at Dunsfold.
Mog
On 4th April 1982, 42 Sqn received the warning order. The following day 2 Nimrods departed for Ascension. On the 7th April they flew the first surveillance sorties south of Ascension. Just remind us how far your war canoe had got by that time Mog?😜
YS