Originally Posted by
Davef68
I recall reading in an account shortly after the war that HMS Endurance's Wasp asked permission to engage the corvette with AS12s, but this was denied (as a youngster at the time, I was a voracious reader of post-Falklands literature). Any truth in that, or just another 'fog of war/spice it up' myth?
This intelligence had been gathered by a remarkable platform, HMS Endurance, known to many as Red Plum due to her ice patrol ship colours. Under the command of Captain Nick Barker RN, Endurance had been ordered to keep a military presence in the area. Sensibly, as she was unarmed, Endurance was to keep a low profile 60 miles out to sea from South Georgia, monitor Argentine communications and send back intelligence reports to the UK. Her popular and inventive commander had actually intended to close the range on the damaged Guerrico on the 3 April to finish the task started by the Royal Marines ashore by using her Wasp helicopters armed with AS.12 missiles, but Whitehall had other ideas, and demanded that self-preservation was the order of the day.
RAF - The recapture of South Georgia