10th June 1982:
Thursday 10th 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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10th June 1982:
The bombardment of the mountains and Moody Valley ends at 03.40 but before first light, British artillery is back in action, taking over for the day shift and hammering Argentine positions...
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10th June 1982:
At 09:00 as British artillery hits Argentine positions in the mountains and Stanley, and Harriers raid and bomb, British helicopters move in to strike the area around Moody Brook with wire-guided missiles. AAA fire is heavy but inaccurate.
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10th June 1982:
Between 10:00-11:00 Harriers bomb Argentine positions in the mountains with cluster bombs and Paveway laser guided bombs in a raid referred to as "particularly vicious". This is clearly a softening up of Argentine positions....
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10th June 1982:
An urgent report headed "UK EYES ALPHA" reaches the MOD. Three Super Etendards were seen at the Dassault factory, in Peruvian markings: Peru hasn't ordered any. It is obvious that Dassault are deliberately dressing them up for Argentine use.
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10th June 1982:
Ten Peruvian Mirages, still in desert camo but now sporting the Argentine flag, arrive in Patagonia, but will not be ready in time before the end of the war...
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10th June 1982:
Argentine artillery opens up a furious barrage over towards the British positions as meanwhile Argentine AAA report multiple and simultaneous tracking faults... one has to wonder if our special forces might have been out to play in the night?
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10th June 1982:
"DISASTER AT BLUFF COVE"
The Daily Mail reports on the losses at Bluff Cove yesterday, on the damaging of HMS Plymouth and on the USA's refusal to help the task force with AWACS planes to detect attacks.
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10th June 1982:
In the UN, Perez de Cuellar states that he is thinking of asking the Pope to intervene when he meets Galtieri on his trip to Argentina, and ask him to stop the war. Sir Anthony Parsons tells him he thinks it is a bad idea & persuades him not to.
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10th June 1982:
At 14.50 ARA Bahia Paraiso returns to Stanley where the Forrest & Yehuin (pictured here) offload stores including 240 tons of provisions and 26,000 litres of fuel (in tanks crudely inscribed as "Agua" i should add).
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10th June 1982:
From 15:30-16:30 Harriers swoop in and bomb Argentine positions with 1,000lb bombs, having something of a field day. Argentine anti-aircraft guns cannot track targets and Tiger Cat missiles are useless as positions are pounded by attacks...
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10th June 1982:
In a surprise evening raid, Harriers swoop in and bomb the three Pucaras which are being used to harass British forces on Mount Kent, leaving them burning fiercely through the night... sneaky Harriers!
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10th June 1982:
Dusk falls and heavy gunfire is heard across the Camber around Fairy Cove including some large calibre tracer rounds from a fast moving vehicle, supposed by many to be a Scimitar light tank. Heavy fire coming in & going out as darkness creeps on.
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10th June 1982:
At 14.50 ARA Bahia Paraiso returns to Stanley where the Forrest & Yehuin (pictured here) offload stores including 240 tons of provisions and 26,000 litres of fuel (in tanks crudely inscribed as "Agua"). The ship also carried two ICRC observers!
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10th June 1982:
MS Exeter, Arrow & Active take up the nightly bombardment from 22:00-04:00. In all, 235 4.5" shells are fired at enemy positions: Exeter (44), Arrow (67) & Active (124) hitting the mountains & areas around Stanley.
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10th June 1982:
The Falklands War - From the War Diaries of Admiral Woodward
Yarmouth battered the mountains, we flew 44 CAPs, sometimes with as many as 16 aircraft over the Island, and Active went into the Southern Gun Line in company with Arrow.
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10th June 1982:
Yarmouth's bombardment was very effective. Two Sisters, Mounts Harriet & William, Sapper Hill & Moody Brook all pounded, explosions caused in ammunition dumps & vehicles set on fire in Moody Brook - 18,000 yards from the frigate.
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10th June 1982:
Another helicopter forward operating base was established at Fitzroy and four Wessex of NAS 847 moved in. Each of the two bases had a 9000 gallon fuel depot and Chinook was employed almost exclusively to keep these topped up.
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10th June 1982:
Out in the Battle Group we waited, and I spent much time alone in my Cabin, writing ill tempered little essays in my Diary.
'This waiting is awful, I believe the Argentines are getting fed up with it and are threatening to attack.
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10th June 1982:
If CLIFFI gets to hear about that, he'll no doubt have to completely re-organise and delay for several more weeks If I had behaved like the land forces, we'd never have bloody well landed!'
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10th June 1982:
With the Argentines
An army mirrors its society. The elite among Argentina's forces, its pilots, were brave & superbly trained.
The gulf between the officers & men sapped the morale of the unskilled conscripts, though their kit was first class.
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10th June 1982:
Marines & Paras:
War gave words to language.
Fittingly, it was the least glamorous phase of the campaign which is commemorated.
The word is 'yomping', Marine slang for a long march under heavy kit. In Para language it is 'tabbing'.
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10th June 1982:
The Marines of 45 Commando and 3 Para did it together.
The long march across the North of the Island from Ajax Bay to Estancia House and on to the Mountains overlooking Stanley.
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10th June 1982:
As Brigadier Julian Thompson put it: "The only difference between us and Hannibal is that he had elephants and we walked"
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10th June 1982:
The Daily Telegraph correspondent Charles Laurence has a great quote. He accompanied 45 Commando.
"My boots, issued new on board Canberra just three weeks ago now look as if they had been in service since World War Two.
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10th June 1982:
"We have yomped ankle-deep in marshland, waded rivers, hauled up mountains. We have kept going through up to six hours of darkness, stumbling through the tussock grass. Sleet, snow, and torrential rain have fallen."
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10th June 1982:
"Where possible we have taken refuge in farm buildings, where the first task has been to dry out boots and sleeping bags to prevent trench foot and assure rest. We have eaten meals cold to avoid the giveaway light of a hexane cooking stove"
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10th June 1982:
Lines of soldiers would stretch for miles.
They'd always keep total radio silence - messages would be passed backwards and forwards man to man.
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10th June 1982:
No 1 Squadron RAF Harrier GR3s flew five missions, with four aircraft from HMS Sheathbill dropping cluster bombs on Argentine artillery west of Port Stanley. Harriers from Hermes attacked positions on Mount Longdon.
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10th June 1982:
A total of forty four CAP sorties were flown by the two carriers Sea Harriers during the day with many of 800 squadrons being doubles by use of the San Carlos airstrip.
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10th June 1982:
The Harriers were vectored towards Argentine air attacks but the Argentine radar at Port Stanley alerted them to the Harriers presence and they turned away. They will have noted the ability of the British to put up sixteen Harriers in an hour.
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10th June 1982:
The crew of the Vulcan detained by Brazil, are told that they may leave with an undertaking that it will take no further part in “warlike operations.” However, the missile removed from the aircraft is to remain in Brazil for the time being.
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10th June 1982:
Representatives of the Red Cross (ICRC) finally arrive in the Falkland Islands. They were brought from Montevideo on SS Uganda.
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10th June 1982:
Apparently oblivious to events around them, Argentina's postal services in Stanley issue a new stamp. Celebrating the 153rd anniversary of Luis Vernet's Civil and Military Command of 1829.
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10th June 1982:
Foreign Office Situation Report for June 10th.
Detained Vulcan - Brazil's President has ruled that the RAF Vulcan should be allowed to depart in return for an assurance it would take no further part in the conflict.
Update on Fitzroy raids.
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10th June 1982:
A message marked UK Eyes Only Alpha is received from the British Embassy in Paris. Three Super Etendards have been seen at the Dassault factory, Bordeaux, in Peruvian markings. Suspicion is that this a circumvention of the French arm embargo.
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10th June 1982:
From the New York Times:
President Reagan ended a 41-hour visit to Britain today that succeeded in strengthening relations between the two traditional allies, despite a lack of agreement on the long-term future of the Falkland Islands.
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10th June 1982:
From the New York Times:
"The attack happened so fast there was not even time to think of finding cover, and as ships were hit, men aboard did not even have time to put on their antiburn asbestos head masks and gloves."
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10th June 1982:
From the New York Times:
"British troops have staged a major new landing in the Falkland Islands but have suffered heavily in the process, correspondents' reports and military sources said tonight."
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10th June 1982:
From the New York Times:
Positioned next to a very prominent advertisement for carpet, the NYT publishes an Argentine report of repelling British attacks on Mount Kent and at Fitzroy.
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