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Wonderful paragraph about the war: > The islanders did what they could to undermine the enemy. Reg Silvey, the Cape Pembroke lighthouse keeper and a radio ham,
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
Wonderful paragraph about the war:
> The islanders did what they could to undermine the enemy. Reg Silvey, the Cape Pembroke lighthouse keeper and a radio ham, rigged an aerial out of a steel-core washing line and transmitted troop information to the British. Terry Peck, a policeman, concealed a telephoto camera in a drainpipe and walked around taking photographs of Argentine missile sites. A farmer named Trudi McPhee led a caravan of islanders in Land Rovers and tractors through hostile territory at night across East Falkland to Tony and Ailsa’s farmhouse, where British troops needed vehicles to transport weapons. Eric Goss, a manager at Goose Green, convinced Argentine soldiers that the lights of British ships in Falkland Sound were moonlight reflecting off seaweed.
- redis_mlc 6y agoThe reason British troops needed local vehicles is that their helicopters were on the "Atlantic Conveyor" merchant ship, which the Argentines sunk. Since British army doctrine is to insert away from the front, they had to march around 55 miles to Port Stanley. (The US does amphibious assaults near the objective, which is high-risk: either you succeed, or get slaughtered on the beach, as in Italy and a couple of the Normandy landings.)