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Old 28th Oct 2005, 22:33
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BB did it's job - The fact that the bombs did no serious strategic damage is irrelevant, and wasn't the aim of the Op. It demonstrated that the Argentine mainland was within the bombers' radius of action from ASI - thus forcing the Argies to keep a good portion of AD assets back for home defence. If they hadn't, the RNs losses may have been much greater.

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