How many of the Falklands War Argentinian ejectees were rescued?
 

Hi all,
Any clues?
regards
TDD

Suggest you start at this link
2005

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Try the book: "Falklands - The Air War". ISBN 090633905 7.

This will give you every last crumb of information about the conflict.

Your question does not say if you mean rescued by the Brits or the Argies but this book reveals all.

479 pages of absolutely first rate research.

Old Duffer

Too many....:E

Hi all,
Thanks for the link and answers.
regards
TDD

30 years ago, in The Sun, maybe. Now that is uncalled for and insensitive.

MHO, sorry.

How many rescued?
 

Follow the link to 13th June Capt Pastrain. I rescued him after he banged out. Found him at night via him signalling with a torch.

Try pinging in a Freedom of Information Request.

PN

I have to disagree with you - the comment you refer to was downright crass.

Why crass and why insensitive?

As a young guy on the ground in 82 I agree with the statement...too many of my mates suffered at their hands.

Timex, you have to remember that we all have to pretend to be fluffy bunny huggers now.

Killing is so last season...........

I don't suppose you have a Japanese TV set or a German car at home, or maybe some German tools, or a Japanese microwave etc



As a young guy half on the ground in '82. I disagree with the statement.


The politicians are the ones to blame, not the members of the forces.

So how long do you continue to hold a grudge for?




The Germans for WW1 and 2.

The French for everything from Waterloo to the Battle of Hastings

The Americans for the War of Independence

The Russians for the Crimean war.

The South Africans for the Boer War.

etc,

etc,




It's a very long list!

Only those things that directly affected me, perhaps I was being harsh as I only lost 6 or so friends there.

timex,

Sorry for you loss. How you deal with it is your issue. If you want to blame the Argentinians indefinately then that is your choice, but not one we all have to follow.


Considering there were twice as many Argentinian losses as British in the Falklands War, perhaps you might like to consider how many people in Argentina might feel about the British today if they adopted your approach - and their forces were largely conscripts, not volunteers.....

Thanks Biggus, guess we'll leave it there.

With the French that tends towards infinity:p, in fact it might even end up being genetic:)

I would concur, though it is quite a rare book, and there are still the odd unknown (unless they have found the wreck of that Pucara that crashed after getting the only Argie air to air on a Scout AH1).

Off the top of my head (not having the book to hand), only 4 Argie aircrew who actually managed to escape from their aircraft and land alive failed to be rescued. The 2 man crew of the first Canberra to be shot down on 1st May managed to eject and were lost at sea to the north of Pebble Island (The patrol vessel sent to search for them ended up eating a couple of Sea Suka's from the lynx off one of the Type 42's). The other two crew were the pilots of 2 Skyhawks, one shot down by a Sidewinder, who broke both of his legs in the ejection and was found dead on the ground on the west coast of West Falkland wrapped in his parachute long after the war finished. The other was shot down by a Sea Dart launched by HMS Coventry, and his body was found in his dinghy washed up on a beach on the north of West Falkland again well after the war finished.

4 of them listed on Amazon.com.

Some of the used ones are going cheap and well worth the postage from the US, the two unused ones are worth 5 times what the book cost in 1986. The book has only been reprinted once as far as I am aware and that was the year after first release.