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Old 13th Feb 2012, 12:46
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Apologies if this has been posted before. I had a quick search and couldn't find a previous posting.

The video is just a snippet from the BBC programme that was broadcast during January 2012.

From You Tube description.

A British Falklands veteran embarks on an extraordinary journey to meet the Argentine pilot he thought he'd killed in the 1982 conflict.

Neil Wilkinson from Leeds was 22-years-old when, as an anti-aircraft gunner onboard HMS Intrepid, he shot down an enemy skyhawk fighter jet.

For decades he believed the pilot was dead.

But First Lieutenent Mariano Velasco had ejected from his burning aircraft and survived.

Now, three decades on, the two former enemies have come face to face for the first time.

Nicola Rees reports from the Falklands and Argentina for BBC Look North and BBC Inside Out in Yorkshire.


Ministry of Defence | Defence News | History and Honour | IN PICTURES: Falklands veteran meets Argentine pilot he shot down 30 years ago

BBC News - Falklands veteran meets Argentine 'enemy' 30 years on

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