Melchett et al
If I were being generous, I could put the Col's comments down to the passage of time. However, I could probably equally argue that this is typical of the sort of comments about the RAF we have come to expect from certain quarters of our Armed Forces who seem keen to denigrate our achievements whenever possible.
More than a little ungenerous I suggest, not to say offside. I appreciate that perhaps due to "the passage of time" you, and others, may well either have forgotten or be unaware that Ewen S-T was the man who tried so desperately to convince the Welsh Guards on board the SIR GALAHAD that, however tired or however unwilling they were to move ashore at Bluff Cove, they must do so before the cloud cover lifted and the Argentinian Skyhawks arrived.
They could have done so, they did not do so - with the tragic results that could so readily have been avoided if only they had heeded his advice.
So be generous, very generous, to a brave man who was there and who tried so hard to do the right thing when the Argentinian bombs were still falling - and had to watch it all happen exactly as he had predicted.
Jack