VP-F and Dan Winterland, both of you mention the impact on morale. What is your source? Being bombed is horrendous (if 107mm fire is anyting to go by) but BB only put two sticks of bombs into a limited amount of real estate. Are you speaking for all troops on the island or just those at the airport? I have read some accounts of the infantry fighting that would suggest the morale in some Argentinian units was very good. This is also very interesting - thank you.
the source was my parents as I was only six at the time and have little recollection of the war in general. My parents reaction to the Vulcan's bombs was "what the hell was that!" One of my memories though was the attack on the Stanley airport following the Vulcan raid, I remember watching the rockets being fired as the harriers went down Stanley harbour from my bedroom in Stanley. The raids gave the Islands residents a tremendous lift and had totally the opposite effect on the poorly trained, fed and led conscripts.