Where were they?
At the risk of being a victim of a wah:
1. The RAF provided 25% of the SHAR pilots during Corporate and they scored approx 25% of the air-air victories. Rather more than a couple.
2. The replacement SHARs would never have got to the Task Force had they not been provided with AAR by the Victor Fleet. That would have left the Task Force eight SHARs light. That would have left the fleet with 20 SHARs to use in combat. Without the replacements, the SHAR force would have been down to 14 airframes by the end of hostilities.
3. 1 Squadron provided Harrier GR3s (again, AAR got them into a position where they could join the Task Force). These were used in several CAS missions, notably at Goose Green where they came in quite handy. They suffered five airframe losses. Without the GR3s and the AAR that got the SHARs to the carrier...
4. ASW and MR cover was not only provided by SK from the fleet, but from Nimrods and MRR from Victors.
5. Resupply of the fleet included airdrops from the Hercules fleet, including what was then (and may still be) the longest air transport sortie ever flown, weighing in at over 24 hours duration. The C-130s flew over 13,000 hours in support of the Task Force, while the rest of the AT fleet (or VC10s, as they were known) flew 4,000 hours.
6. And finally, but by no means least, in the case of Flt Lt Garth Hawkins, on a Sea King that took a bird in the engine and which went to the bottom of the ocean along with the SF team to whom he was the FAC and with whom he died.