9th June 1982:
Wednesday 9th June events are summarised here by the BBC News which provides a decent summary of the days events but for more detail please read on.
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9th June 1982:
During the previous night, HMS Yarmouth pounds Argentine positions around Stanley and Moody Brook; pulling away before dawn. She fired 124 rounds, some in a duel with the 155mm battery which managed to land some shells quite close to the frigate.
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9th June 1982:
Morning in Port Stanley dawns as a "clear frosty morning with a light nor'west wind.
Artillery is rumbling in the mountains from daybreak as meanwhile, locals observe that Argentine soldiers are literally starving...
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9th June 1982:
At 08:30 three Pucaras take off from the auxiliary airfield outside of Stanley and attack British positions on Mount Kent with rockets and cannon. All three are landed again by 08:45 with two aircraft sustaining damage from small arms fire.
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9th June 1982:
From 10:00-11:00 Harriers launch multiple sorties, bombing positions west of town near Moody Brook and artillery positions at the back of Davis Street, south of town. One is hit by small-arms fire six or seven times, but lands safely.
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9th June 1982:
Before dawn, Royal Marines launch patrols towards Mount Harriet and Two Sisters. At Mount Harriet, elements of 42 Commando kill at least two Argentines, whilst at Two Sisters, the patrol is driven off with artillery. No British casualties.
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9th June 1982:
British artillery pound away at Argentine positions in the mountains and west of Stanley all day, with explosions heard sometimes twenty at a time. Late in the day, a massive explosion rocks the town as a British shell strikes an ammunition dump.
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9th June 1982:
Argentine "Hospital Ship" ARA Bahia Paraiso arrives in Stanley by late morning, bringing tons of food and supplies and a little contraband too. Photo was taken of her on this day.
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9th June 1982:
At 14:00 Argentine aircraft take off; six Skyhawks & three Daggers, loaded with bombs to attack the beach-head at Fitzroy. Citing a combination of mechanical failures, bad visibility & inability to find targets, they return to base fully loaded.
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9th June 1982:
At 9pm a tremendous explosion rocks Stanley as an Argentine ammunition dump explodes spectacularly. The cause is assumed to be a British howitzer shell...
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9th June 1982:
HMS Invincible photographed on this day from RFA Fort Grange... still very much afloat and completely intact! This is the second photo of her since the mythical "attack" which again proves she was never hit.
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9th June 1982:
British media reports on "Riddle of bombed Supertanker" referencing the Argentine gaffe in accidentally attacking the neutral ship (and denying it) the VLCC Hercules. Oddly, the Fitzroy / Bluff Cove disaster doesn't make the news yet.
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9th June 1982:
The Falklands War - From the War Diaries of Admiral Woodward
Aftermath of yesterdays attacks.
The attack on the LSL's had been hurriedly put together by the Argentine airforce.
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9th June 1982:
There were suspicions in the Task Force that the Argentine attacks were connected to the non availability of the airstrip at San Carlos. Argentine sources confirm though that the renewed activity was coincidental.
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9th June 1982:
They had sent 14 aircraft up from Argentina, but various technical and fuelling problems the force was reduced to 10.
As mentioned yesterday two waves of aircraft hit Sir Tristham and Sir Galahad.
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9th June 1982:
Five daggers ran North up the Western side of Falkland Sound, prior to making a right turn towards Port Pleasant. However, as they made their adjustment they suddenly saw PLYMOUTH steaming out of Carlos Water. They decided to attack the warship.
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9th June 1982:
David Pentreath (c/o) ordered her hard to port and got a seacat away which damaged one of the Daggers, and they blasted the raiders with 20mm cannon fire and machine guns, but here was no way of stopping all five.
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9th June 1982:
Four 1000lb bombs hit PLYMOUTH, not one going off, thought the last blew up a depth charge being prepped for the Helo, which started a major fire.
The daggers made off, pursued by a couple of Harriers.
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9th June 1982:
They left five men injured & a frigate smoking spectacularly, but not fatally damaged. It was, Plymouths last battle. Captain Coward said later.
"She was always going to cop it. She did not really have the right kit to fight this kind of battle.
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"But I will never forget her in San Carlos when we were under such serious attack - she just steamed around and around the other ships in a gesture to the Args of total defiance"
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9th June 1982:
In total the land forces lost 50 men killed or missing, 47 wounded, most of them badly burnt - of these 39 of the dead and 28 wounded were Welsh Guards. The Royal Navy lost 7 dead and 11 wounded.
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9th June 1982:
There was gallantry during the day, in particular 2nd Engineering officer Paul Henry who handed over the only breathing apparatus in the burning engine room of Galahad to allow a Junior Officer to escape. He earned a Posthumous GM for this action.
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9th June 1982:
Third Officer Andrew Gudgeon RFA was awarded a Queen's Gallantry Medal for twice entering the accommodation area to search among the smoke for trapped survivors.
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9th June 1982:
More would have perished but for the heroism of the helicopter crews firstly by their quick reaction and also by their skill and persistence hovering over the burning ships, lifting survivors from the water or blowing liferafts away from the ship.
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9th June 1982:
Lieutenant Commander H. S. Clark received the Distinguished Service Cross while Lieutenants J.K. Boughton and P/J Sheldon were awarded Queen's Gallantry Medals.
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9th June 1982:
Among the wounded was Simon Weston, who later featured in a BBC documentary about the treatment for his 25% third degree burns. Weston endured 75 operations in 22 years.
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9th June 1982:
In a subsequent documentary, filmed in Argentina, he met the pilot who bombed his ship, Carlos Cachón, who was by then retired with the rank of captain. They have since become friends.
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9th June 1982:
Sir Galahad´s captain, Philip Roberts waited until the last minute to abandon ship and was the last to leave He was awarded the DSO for his leadership and courage. One of only two awarded after the Second World War to the Merchant Navy.
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9th June 1982:
Mike Rose has described the official investigation as a whitewash. In the TV documentary Falklands War: The Untold Story he says "the board of inquiry into the loss of the Tristram and the Galahad turned out to have been a complete whitewash,
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9th June 1982:
by saying it was necessary to open up a southern flank. Actually the opposite is true by 180 degrees.
But that remains in the public record today."
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9th June 1982:
The 9th passed fairly quietly.
I spoke via phone to CinC (Admiral Fieldhouse) and we both managed to avoid telling the Land Commander 'I told you so'.
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9th June 1982:
It turned out that Fleet was no longer planning to replace me with the Flag Officer 3rd Flotilla.
Won't be coming as fast as we thought" was the Admirals throw away remark.
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9th June 1982:
It sounded like a life sentence.
That's the trouble with being trusted by your superiors.
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9th June 1982:
RFA Engadine had arrived with her four helicopters and more important, air and ground crews. The helicopter transport force really got going. For daylight operations there were sixteen Sea Kings, twenty three Wessex and the single Chinook.
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9th June 1982:
In addition to the naval and airforce helicopters each army brigade had six Scouts and six Gazelles under direct control and these could be used for light transport tasks. A forward operating base was established at Teal Inlet & later at Fitzroy.
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9th June 1982:
Argentina's air force get permission to bring two Chinook helicopters from Stanley back to the Rio Grande Air Base in Argentina to avoid them being captured by British forces. They bring wounded and airforce officers with them.
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9th June 1982:
Margaret Thatcher is asked by NBC about negotiations. She replies: "We've been trying for a negotiated settlement for eight weeks. The Argentines could have withdrawn any time. They haven't withdrawn. It is now beyond a negotiated settlement."
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9th June 1982:
By night, Argentine Hospital Ship ARA Bahia Paraiso unloads two MM38 Exocet missiles for the land based Exocet launcher, which are put on a flat-bed truck and taken up towards Davis Street. Several Falkland Islanders watch them doing it...
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9th June 1982:
By night, HMS Yarmouth fires 164 4.5" shells into Argentine positions in the mountains and around Stanley & Moody Brook, slipping away before dawn. Attrition on the Argentine forces around Stanley is becoming a telling factor in the Falklands war.
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9th June 1982:
Foreign Office Situation Report.
Argentina complaining about the British using nuclear submarines in the South Atlantic.
The MOD also issued a statement concerning Argentine air attacks on HMS Plymouth, Sir Galahad & Sir Tristram.
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9th June 1982:
Agenda for a meeting of the Overseas and Defence (South Atlantic) on the Falklands, prepared by Sir Robert Armstrong. The meeting was scheduled for the following day but these points were in the form of an aide memoir for the P.M.
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9th June 1982:
Galtieri goes on record to say that he will only accept a mutual withdrawal from the Falklands, but will not withdraw without British reciprocation, stating that he is "prepared to continue the war for as many months and years as necessary".
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9th June 1982:
Quote of the Day from the New York Times is a real peach from President Reagan.
''On distant islands in the South Atlantic young men are fighting for Britain."
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9th June 1982:
The New York Times:
"President Reagan in urged Britain and the world today to join the United States in a crusade for freedom by encouraging the spread of democracy, even in Communist countries."
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9th June 1982:
The New York Times also reports on the State Banquet given by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for President Reagan and Mrs. Reagan along with the US Secretary of State, Alexander Haig.
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9th June 1982:
The NYT quotes British sources who reported the bombing of British frigate HMS Plymouth, saying that the ship was damaged.
The Argentines, true to from reported that they had sang HMS Plymouth, again!
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9th June 1982:
For balance here is the NYT story on the sinking of HMS Plymouth!
Argentina announced tonight that its planes attacked British forces making an amphibious landing on the Falkland Islands today, sinking a frigate and killing many British troops.
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