In response to post #84 (beagle):
I don't think that anyone would cast aspersions at Cdr Ward's record in the Falklands. He did damn well - apart from trying to call up the Black Buck Vulcan inbound to its target. Others perhaps deserved some...querying. Such as the pilot who hadn't boned up on the differences between GR3 and FRS1 weapons switchery, for example.... Read Mog's book - a much better all round read than Ward's.
just an observation...the said pilot who made a mess of the switchery can hardly be blamed for any significant share of the failings of the SHAR force: that would have been too unfair (as is any discussion on failings and SHARs in 1982
)...also, the said pilot perished in a mid-air during 1v1 ACM in '83 and this adds to above unfortunate comment if you consider that he (and another RAFG sqn colleague of his) were the last two supplementary pilots to be rushed to the Sea Harrier from RAFG and so had even less conversion time than even Morgan himself on the SHAR...
...not to mention he still got the job done in that instance and in general bagged two Argentinian a/c in that conflict and furthermore and perhaps more importantly he was an ex-Lightning god
