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Why is South Africa dangerous?Alana Logan's answer to Is South Africa a haven for criminals?Black South Africans are generally xenophobic against blacks from other countries -Post Apartheid -Raul JeferinoSouth Africa was once a very safe, functional and prosperous country.That was before White former President, FW De Klerk sold South Africa out to the ANC Communist terrorists to govern under duress of international sanctions.Communism Socialism DESTROYS everything wholesome, good, and time tested - Why today's youth love Socialism - Che Guevare even has his own street named after him in Berea, Durban, Kwazulu Natal. Communist Socialist kids wear T-shirts with his face on them in South Africa.But since then emboldened and foreigner mentored terrorist SACP/ ANC/ EFF/BLF /DA have turned South Africa into one of the most dangerous countries to live in or to visit in Africa …South Africa travel adviceSouth Africa's politicians feed anti-foreigner violence | DW | 02.04.2019Hate Crime / Xenophobia - BlogLinking attack on foreign nationals burnt to death to xenophobia is 'premature' - KZN governmentEven South African police don't get the gravity of the terrorist situation in SASlaughterMalema: Cutting the throats of "whiteness"Dr Dan Roodt explains the implications of rogue thugs, like Julius Malema, and how it affects the entire country of South Africa. Bear in mind that Julius Malema has foreign handlers who coach him every step of the way …Khoisan lady tells Julius Malema how it really isSouth Africa - Willemien Potgieter - Mainstream media is Communist and refuse to report on stories like this. She will always be remembered :(Potgieter family massacre-suspects hailed as heroesThe murders so brutal they shocked even South Africa -Couple raped, tortured and shot dead in front of son, aged 12, drowned in scalding bath. His skin had to be peeled off the side of the bathThe murders so brutal they shocked even South Africa: Couple shot dead, then son aged 12 is drowned in scalding bathhttp://www.genocidewatch.org/southafrica.htmlhttp://genocideinsouthafrica.co.za/image/anc-regime-blocks-white-asylum-seekersNine gruesome farm attacks that shocked South Africans | South Africa Today - MediaWhat is the BETTER non-Socialist option for increasing wealth in South Africa towards blacks, rather than agressively distributing it by committing acts of government sanctioned land theft and murder?August 2018: List of South African farms marked for expropriation without compensation (theft by the SACP/ANC /PAC /EFF /BLF /DA government in order to sell to the highest foreign bidders like China):A bit of "good" news out of South Africa for a change ...Durban City secures court order against land grabbers | Berea MailSomeone who talks SENSE.South Africa - Farm murder statisticsInterview by an American ministerJust another murder in South AfricaRene Kruger thanking Donald TrumpWillem Petzer thanking Donald TrumpDanie Barnard testimonyNot only whites desperate to leave South AfricaQuinton du Plessis' testimonyBelinda's testimonyJacques Barnard's testimonySouth African Alison Botha survives brutal attackSouth African farm murdersAvi and MariandraBoer widow speaks outMarianda Heunis survivorGenocide in South AfricaTeenagers grandparents and parents murdered on South African farmSouth African farm murders. Janines storyWife of murdered Peet van EssAvi Yemini explains hate filled march to kill whites in South AfricaSouth African genocide explainedSouth African farm attacks. Survivor interviewsWhite farmers in South Africa are being tortured and killedSouth Africa media silentAt last the world is waking upWhite genocide South AfricaThe world is waking upMany countries still remain silent on farmer family genocide in South AfricaFarmer family attacks and murders in South AfricaSouth Africa advances anti-white policies in the "Rainbow Nation", amid farm murdersWe speak to farmers and farm workers about South African farm murdersTribute to South African farm murder victimsWhite farmer genocide in South AfricaSA farm murders - FactsWe are not allowed to call it “genocide”.South African farm murders. A warning for AmericaAngry South African farmers ward off Communist anti-white African protestersRape in South Africa past and present, is usually followed by torture and murder.Amy Elizabeth BiehlWe Are Not Such Things by Justine van der Leun review – the shocking murder of Amy BiehlIt was supposed to have been one of Amy Biehl's last days in South Africa. It was a Wednesday, and in only three days on that coming Saturday she was scheduled to return to the United States. An idealistic Stanford graduate, Amy was completing a 10-month course of study as a Fullbright exchange scholar at the University of Western Cape Community Law Center where she had helped to develop voter registration programs for South African blacks and women as that nation's first all-race elections approached in April, 1994. Amy was scheduled to continue her promising academic career the following week as a new graduate student at Rutger's University in New Jersey. Amy never made it back to the United States alive.________South African president's rape victim speaks out - She was granted asylym in Holland with her mother:'Why I wish that Zuma was dead' | IOL News____Woman who accused ANC deputy president of rape hits out from HollandI Wish Zuma was Dead, says Khwezi [The Star, 2007-07-06]____Jogger returns home after brutal KZN rape____Rape in South Africa — ranking the country alongside conflict zones such as Sierra Leone, Colombia and Afghanistan.Log In or Sign Up to ViewThe Rape Capital of the WorldBritish tourist in Aids fear after rape ordealWoman raped during armed robbery at her homeBarbaric superstitions:(Not all) South African (black) men, rape babies to cure HIV AIDS:South African men rape babies as 'cure' for AidsAIDS 'Virgin' Myth Drives South Africa's Hideous Child-Rape EpidemicFake Cures For AIDS Have A Long And Dreadful HistoryThousands of babies a month raped in South Africa because of Virgin AIDS-cleansing myth: expert ethnologist report | http://CENSORBUGBEAR.orghttps://www.censorbugbear.org/genocide/thousands-of-babies-a-month-raped-in-south-africa-because-of-virgin-aids-cleansing-myth-expert-ethnologist-reportDog rapes:http://www.thequists.com/when-the-least-of-these-look-like-the-worse-of-these/#more-329Dog rape in South Africa - the endless horror of abuseDOGS ‘RAPED’ IN TOWNSHIP | South Africa TodayDog rape: Dogs Now Victims of Gang Rape & Sexual Assault across South AfricaAnd when you hear of these rapes, it's usually gang rapes, jackrollings, raping and torturing combined, or rape and murder combined.Keith Knott commented about the rape statistics in SA, in mainstream media talking about one rape every four to seven minutes but today it is one rape every few seconds - note the escalation since then:"Those figures are for the reported rapes. The majority of rapes in S'efrica are not reported, or are categorised by SAPS as 'Domestic Violence.'My old friend, Adriana Stuijt and I, did an excercise many years ago for Crime Busters of South Africa, and found the incidence of rape to be one victim for every 26 seconds of elapsed time.Methinks, that today things may have gotten worse, but don't take my word for it, without investigating further. I am only partly human after all, and not a Gospel writer"________________Written in 2013 -28 per cent of men have raped in South Africa:Indian rape victim's case hits home in South Africa, where 28 per cent of men have raped________________2015Rape has become a way of life in South AfricaCharlene SmithJackie Selebi, the national police commissioner, said there were 115,3 cases per 100 000 people in 1994, compared with 113,7 in 2003/04. Selebi said rape statistics might be exaggerated because many rape cases were reported on a Friday and Saturday night, only to be withdrawn on a Monday.It's the withdrawal of cases that bears closer examination, because it says nothing about women lying about rape as the ignorant might believe, but it says everything about a society that fails women and children and is allowing HIV/Aids to proliferate without check. South Africa has the highest rates of rape in the world, according to Interpol, and the highest incidence of HIV. The National Prosecuting Authority tells us that 50 percent of all cases before South African courts are for rape, except in Durban and Mdantsane, where it is 60 percent.Although the Law Reform Commission estimates there are 1,7 million rapes a year, on average only 54 000 rape survivors lay charges each year. Why? It is because rape survivors are treated so badly by so many. Every time a rape survivor does not lay a charge, she allows a rapist or rapists - because 75 percent of rape in South Africa is gang rape - to believe he or they can do it again. And he or they will. Again and again, until a rape survivor does battle with the police, doctors, psychologists and the courts to get the justice she deserves, and to protect the next woman or child.A Medical Research Council study into conditions for rape survivors in Gauteng in 2002 found that the treatment of survivors by police and medical and court personnel was deplorable. Two researchers were so traumatised by what they witnessed that they had to go for counselling.The Medical Research Council reported that 26 percent of doctors and nurses who treated rape cases didn't think them a serious medical problem. Yet rape carries the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, a range of other infections, pregnancy and long-term psychological scarring.Last year the cabinet removed Section 21 from the new Sexual Offences Bill, which would have given post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP, which is medication to prevent HIV) as well as medication to prevent STIs and pregnancy to rape survivors. They left in Section 22, which guarantees medical care for the rapist and undertakes to rehabilitate any alcohol or narcotics addictions he might have.In other words, the government will help to remove self-inflicted addictions from the criminal, but won't have legislation compelling hospitals to provide women and children with the medication that prevents them from getting criminal-inflicted HIV. Professor Ames Dhai of the University of Natal points out that there are twice as many rape survivors at risk of seroconversion to HIV than there are babies born in South Africa to HIV-positive mothers, yet there are few calls for PEP for rape survivors. She asks: Is it because of residual stigma against those raped?.Just over a month ago a 21-year-old student was forced at knifepoint into an alley off Long Street, Cape Town, and was raped. When she went to Groote Schuur Hospital she, like many rape survivors, found it difficult to use the word rape.She told the admissions clerk she had been attacked. Because government hospitals do not see the necessity to train staff to be sensitive towards this problem, he told her to see her private doctor. She had to wait until the next morning - and yet the administration of PEP is urgent: to prevent HIV it has to take place less than 72 hours after the first act of penetration or attempted penetration.Her doctor, being as incompetent as most GPs in dealing with rape survivors - in part because most universities give scant training to medical students on how to deal with rape - made her wait while he tried to figure out what medicines she should take. He finally gave her a prescription for two months of PEP instead of just 28 days.It took her six hours and eight chemists to find a chemist that stocked anti-retrovirals - she finally sat in the eighth pharmacy, which didn't have the drugs, and refused to move until she was told where she could find them. Only then did a chemist pick up a phone and help her to get access to them. In the country with the world's highest rate of HIV and rape, why do so few pharmacies stock anti-retrovirals, or at the very least three-day PEP starter packs for rape survivors? This failure has nothing to do with the new medical regulations: few were stocking ARVs before.The young woman's father phoned the police from Johannesburg, and was told that the cameras on Long Street had not picked up anything untoward on that night, so there was no point in laying a charge. Failures like these lead to statistics like these:UNAIDS reported last year that in South Africa two-and-a-half times more women are infected than men because many women experience forced sex.UNICEF reports that six times more girls than boys in Africa are infected with HIV.A Human Sciences Research Council study found a significant cohort of HIV-infected children whose mothers were not HIV-positive. How did they become infected?.In South Africa, police tell us, 41 percent of those raped are under the age of 12. In Meadowlands, Soweto, police say 90 percent of rape in that community is against children younger than 12.Superintendent Nico Snyman, head of that police station, says that despite a good arrest rate, only a small percentage of cases get prosecuted because families will accept compensation from the rapist or rapists, and the child is then prevented from testifying. In the case of a young man raped in Wentworth, Durban, three years ago, when he was 14, the thugs who raped him offered his impoverished grandmother R3 000 to get him to drop the case. She wanted the money, but he refused despite continuing threats.Investigating officers were changed three times, the prosecutors four times. The victim went for counselling at a well-known child counselling centre, but because he is an orphan and his grandmother unemployed, he couldn't afford bus fare to continue and no one bothered to go to him. Last week the case against the accused was dismissed for lack of evidence. The prosecutor did not add extortion to the charge sheet, nor did she bother to get anyone to testify how he the victim took rat poison after the rape and spent a week in Addington Hospital's psychiatric ward because he was so traumatised.The investigating officer was on leave and did not testify, and no victim impact statement was used. Gangsters got away with the rape of a boy because no one cared, and this was a case the National Prosecuting Authority's Sexual Offences Unit received frequent complaints about.A nine-year study by Cape Town's Red Cross Children's Hospital, published in the SA Medical Journal in December 2002, found that the average age of children raped was three. Research has shown that 40 percent of those raped in South Africa are at risk of becoming HIV-positive if they do not receive PEP.Experts believe that if post-exposure prophylaxis was given immediately to rape survivors, South Africa could cut new HIV transmission dramatically. Yet little is done to advance this HIV preventive mechanism. What are the costs of providing PEP? The cost to the government of each HIV test is less than 60c, according to the department of health. PEP costs it about R60 for 28 days. In other words, to treat 54 000 reported rapes each year would cost the government less than R600 000.A rape specialist, Dr Adrienne Wulfsohn, says the hospital costs of treating one rape survivor who contracts HIV is around R600 000 during her shortened life. Better treatment of rape survivors would result in more reporting and would give them the confidence to go through with their cases. What is more, most rapists are involved in other crimes - you jail a rapist and you invariably put away a dangerous criminal responsible for other offences.South Africans need to become more serious about combating this crime. Charlene Smith, a journalist, was raped and stabbed in her home in 1999 and has since become an internationally recognised expert on sexual violence and post-exposure prophylaxis. (Source: Sunday Independent, 26 September 2004)http://www.hst.org.za/news/rape-has-become-way-life-south-africaPolitically motivated violence:The video documentary by Carte Blanche's award-winning investigative journalist, Devi Sankaree Govender about the reality of Farm Murders (Genocide) in South Africa, is posted here for the World to see. Please share, and share again!Ruda Landman, an award winning investigative journalist for Carte Blanche, also produced a SHOCKING documentary, that was also RECENTLY BANNED about the same topic.Links to the attached video (with media commentary):https://sa-news.com/farmmurderscarte-blanche-directly-links-julius-malema-to-farm-murders-video/#FarmMurders Carte Blanche Directly Links Julius Malema To Farm Murders! Sa Newshttps://sa-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/carte-blance-and-julius-malema.mp4?_=1Shocking, Carte Blanche directly links Julius Malema to different farm attacks across South Africa - News Soweto https://newsoweto.co.za/shocking-carte-blanche-directly-links-julius-malema-different-farm-attacks-across-south-africa/https://www.facebook.com/sowetanpolitics/videos/982023401974256/Carte Blanche discovers farmers are more likely to be murdered than police officers - MyTvNewshttp://www.mytvnews.co.za/carte-blanche-discovers-farmers-are-more-likely-to-be-murdered-than-police-officers/Carte Blanche: "Since 1990 more than 3 500 farm attacks have been reported. These figures represent 10% of all commercial farmers in South Africa. More shocking statistics suggest that a farmer’s chances of being murdered are double that of a police officer. Farm attacks are often associated with extreme levels of violence and brutality. Carte Blanche investigates the motives behind these attacks"http://www.mytvnews.co.za/carte-blanche-discovers-farmers-are-more-likely-to-be-murdered-than-police-officers/Malema, the EFF and the politics of hateSouth African terrorist government once more aligns with another terrorist organisation, Hamas, making South Africa' alignment with Iran a potential threat to all ...South Africa’s treating with terrorists threatens us all | The Conservative WomanUK issues terror warning against South AfricaEXTRACT: Evaluating the threat of Islamist extremism to South Africa and the wider regionAlana Logan's answer to How important do you think sanctions were in ending Apartheid?In South Africa it has never been non-Black against Black Communist violence, unless you count self-defence as violence.However, South Africa has ALWAYS experienced Black violence and dire atrocities against ALL South African ethnic groups - ESPECIALLY against Blacks ...3 Things You Didn’t (Want To) Know About Nelson MandelaMandela sings about killing whitesMandela`s secret history - OPINIONFormer President Jacob Zuma singing about murdering white South AfricansAlana Logan's answer to Will the ANC in South Africa ever lose power?Alana Logan's answer to What will Nelson Mandela be remembered for?Alana Logan's answer to How was Nelson Mandela?SACP/ ANC Communist (Black on non-Communist Blacks) Violence before, during and after Apartheid ...ANC Violence in South Africa during the 80's and 90's | South Africa Today - Mediahttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dwb2FE9hOpeI&ved=0ahUKEwjEorHvlbXjAhVvRBUIHcV8BmEQo7QBCB4wAA&usg=AOvVaw2q4CSmFXV-sdrCEhZOTmgHANC Violence against blacks during ApartheidRussell Lamberton - Macro-Economic analyst - The core of the SACP/ANC is not democraticAlana Logan's answer to Will the ANC in South Africa ever lose power?South African farmers are busy undergoing a genocide in South Africa today - Actually the first reported farm murder took place in 1987The Democratic Alliance sub-SACP/ANC political party of South Africa owes it's minority voters an apology (it won't happen! )Such a pity Ramaphosa, the SACP/ ANC, Andile the BLF, PAC, DA, were left out of this complaint.The DA also promotes land grabs.ANC runs a killer-dictatorship - warning by SA communistANC runs a killer-dictatorship - warning by SA communist!The Democratic Alliance would hasten the land reform process in South Africa if it were to come to power, party leader Mmusi Maimane:DA would speed up land reform, says Maimane | IOL NewsAnd here is the result of land grabs in South Africa, "hastened land reform" (theft) ....Radio Free South AfricaDemocratic Alliance and ANC MPs take away minority job-rights, vote for the Employment Equity Amendment BillRead more at http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1753#ZE0TjU8wcxcDRWg2.99The DA's final objective is to form a coalition with SACP/ANC/PAC/EFF/BLF Communist parties.Redirecting...,DA to introduce recruitment targets based on raceDA to introduce recruitment targets based on raceZille accused of `airbrushing` Tony Leon from opposition history - OPINIONSouth African Police Chief makes the most woke statement ...South African Affirmative Action PoliceSomeone anonymous's answer to Should I move to South Africa?And here is a similar question but asked about the AmericasAlana Logan's answer to Why hasn't the United States, gone in the same direction as other nations considered to be part of Western civilization, i.e. become more civilized?Today in South Africa, laws are applied to minorities only and not to Communists, who are seldom held to account for incitement to genocide.The old flag is Libertarian and represents a time when everybody, especially black folk (Communist or not), could find employment within one day and it represents a period when education and basic services were impeccable.It represents a period when there were no daily terrorist attacks on farmers or other citizens or visitors to South Africa and when South Africans were not tortured, raped and murdered by Communist indoctrinated terrorists, ("criminals"), in their homes and cars on a daily basis.Since the flag was removed, the murder rate has skyrocketed to around 60 Communist on non-Communist, murders per day, except when PAC/ANC/Mkonto We Sizwe terrorism and Quatro Camp tortures (Black against black) occurred.Arguments that there is no threat of, or looming genocide, against non-Communists (mostly minorities), are in defiance of the findings of Genocide Watch International and the President of Genocide Watch, Dr Gregory Stanton who came to South Africa on fact finding missions.Genocide Watch International recognises the ongoing gradual, quater-decade (post old flag), attempts to use "crime" (terrorism), on foreign nationals (blacks from other countries), farmers, Afrikaners, Boers, and on white folk (Communist or not).Whenever South African Communists murder, rape or torture, they go by the direct public incitement to murder, by their Communist leaders.What most folk do not realise, is that the British Crown has, since the new flag, been governing South Africa by proxy, through the South African Communist parties and sub-political parties (SACP/ANC/EFF/BLF/PAC) -For instance, when Julius Malema of the EFF terror party, suddenly went quiet at one small point recently, it was because he was recalled to Britain and ordered by the queen herself, "to cooperate with president Cyril Ramaphosa", who then began to escalate Julius Malema's policies of land expropriation without compensation.Julius Malema is the ANC/EFF mouthpiece. At that point in time, farm murder statistics made a sharp upturn as farmers and anyone living on a farm (Black or white), were losing their lives left, right and center. Daily several farmers would lose their lives.The best way to save South Africa is to eradicate Communism and Socialism first, and then to pull out of the Commonwealth.What most folk do not realise is that Julius Malema is head of the Commission, which appoints the Communist panel which appoints new judges.Only potential judges who are sympathetic to the current Communist regime are appointed as future judges in South Africa, which is why Julius Malema has never been successfully arrested, charged and given a prison sentence for his public incitement to daily mass murder of minorities and which is why Julius Malema has never been arrested for hiring hardened prisoners to murder farmers and anyone who stands in the way of the Communist SACP/ANC EFF/BLF.However anyone who writes books on the actual situation in South Africa, drawing attention to governmental crimes and corruptions, is immediately arrested and is forced to prove their innocence and of course, in South Africa you can get six months in prison for torturing and raping a baby, who dies because of it and three years in prison, plus an unrealistically exorbitant fine for using the k-word in pure frustration over the way South Africa has been hijacked by Communist indoctrinated terrorists and governed into the ground by these Communists.The old South African flag brings nostalgia for the days before Communism ruled, for the days when all, (black, white, Indian, mixed race), could become employed within a day and basic services worked well.South Africa won the conventional border war against the Communist invasion, only to lose the unconventional "People's War", which is designed to "never end", according to it's manifesto.The reason why the unconventional People's War is so successful, is because it functions on misinformation and disinformation about South African history.Websites like SAHO (South African History Online), has Communist CEO's.South Africa now also has her own Facebook representatives who monitor and censor any Facebook pages or groups or posts, which tell the South African story as it actually is.Wikipedia supposedly can be edited by literally anyone, (who follows the Communist narratives) and has been hijacked by an inner Extreme Leftist group of admins, who ultimately decide who gets to edit and write on Wikipaedia, and who does not.

PLUM DUFF OPERATION IN TIERRA DEL FUEGOStatements of the British Army "It confirms what we have been saying for many years"The Malvinas war veteran Juan Carlos Alderete said that the statements of the captain of the British Special Air Service Andy Legg, who revealed the details of the so-called Operation 'Plum Duff', "confirms what we have been saying for many years."“On March 10, a statement by an British officer, Captain Andy Legg, who was in charge of a mission that was to infiltrate SAS commandos here in Tierra del Fuego, more precisely in Rio Grande, in an operation called Plum, appeared in the British media. Duff. He landed in the north of the island by means of Sea King helicopters –there were two of them- and they came from the Invincible aircraft carrier (HMS Invincible - R05) ”, explained Alderete.He added that one of these helicopters “reaches a certain area on the border with Chile, closer to the border with Chile because there was only one line where the Chilean military were on one side and the Argentine military on the other. Our soldiers were just waiting for this helicopter that came from the Invincible because the other helicopter is shot down near the Strait of Magellan by a Blowpipe rocket and it is destroyed, falling all the pieces in the water and all its occupants are dead. "He explained that “this helicopter was shot down by the Argentine marines who were stationed near the border with Chile, in the north of the island of Tierra del Fuego. The other English helicopter tries to reach the coast and when it does so and wants to lower its occupants, it was also repelled by the infants who were in the area waiting ”.Alderete said that “that helicopter takes flight, being damaged and flies to the Chilean sector - 80 kilometers north of Punta Arenas and there it is 'crashed' in the same way that it happened with another English helicopter in Agua Fresca, and the crew delivery to Chileans in Santiago de Chile. This device was involved in Operation 'Plum Duff' ”.He specified that “this second helicopter that Andy Legg declares that he had tried to penetrate Tierra del Fuego –after being tried to shoot down by the Argentines- takes flight and goes to Punta Loyola where it is hit by the shots of the soldier Nelson Vivas of the self-described 'Ghost Company 'and it is damaged and falls about eighty kilometers to the north and as I said, its occupants surrender to the Chilean authorities in Santiago de Chile, directly ”.The other incident with a British helicopter occurred in Agua Fresca, 18 kilometers south of Punta Arenas, also in the framework of Operation 'Plum Duff' but it was manned by the then Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hutchines, his helicopter was also a Sea King , registration ZA 290; This aircraft lands near Estancia Sara, north of Río Grande, where it leaves eight members of the SAS, with the same objective of reconnaissance on the ground and in the face of Operation 'Plum Duff' they also aimed to attack the Naval Air Base Rio Grande and destroy the three remaining Exocet AM 39 missiles, destroy the Super Etendard planes, kill the pilots and on their flight to Chile, destroy whatever gets in their way, "said the interviewee.He added that “that helicopter is 'crashed' on purpose 18 kilometers south of Punta Arenas, in a sector called Agua Fresca. Last year I was in that sector, I asked permission because it is private property, I traveled because I wanted to know if any vestige of the machine survived; I made some recordings, I made some audios and I found the place thanks to the only photo that was circulating and it was a yellow machine that was covering a helicopter that could be seen from afar ”.He assured that he found the journalist from La Prensa Austral, José Villarroel, “he took the photos that morning and had a lot of problems, he spent a week without being able to leave his house because the Chilean police and military were waiting for him because they wanted to take the camera out of him and they didn't want me to post the photos. Exactly the day the photos were taken, she was riding in a Lada Niva that had the La Prensa Austral logo on the door. He locked himself in his vehicle and did not let them take out his camera with the photos of the British helicopter that Chilean machines were covering him ”.OPERATION CODE ANGLOCHILEAN MIKADO.Mikado operationPhotos: The Royal Marines pose smiling With police officers -RM During the round conference at the British Embassy in Santiago de Chile -The Sea King helicopter remains are hidden Whose by a bulldozer Against Journalists and witnesses in Punta Arenas -Gen. Matthei Cte. the Fach*Video:The British thought that after the sinking of the ARA Belgrano, the Argentine Navy would take refuge in the ports so as not to be within reach of the nuclear submarines and the other warships not to fight the rest of the war. But it was not so, they simply took refuge in shallower waters to make it difficult for the submarines to chase.The Argentine Navy would find the rest of the war patrolling the Argentine Sea and territorial waters adjacent to the southern Atlantic and the border with Chile.As they feared, the ZA-290 was detected by Argentine radars and Lieutenant Hutchings of the Royal Marines decided to cancel the operation and head directly to Chile.Book Surveillance and Air Control in Argentina - The image shows the traces of the almost five minutes that the Sea King ZA290 was on the radar screen. The first trace occurs at 4:28 AM when, according to the crew, it touched down to disembark the SAS team. At that moment, Legg felt that the place was not safe and had a disagreement with the pilot about where the commando group should descend. Finally, it continued towards Chile.The device was abandoned and destroyed by its occupants, but the truth is that they returned to the United Kingdom by regular flight and without any problem, which would confirm the Chilean involvement in the conflict on the British side (officially, "they surrendered to the Chilean authorities "But at no time were they treated as prisoners of war, but as allied fighters).They hid themselves in the British embassy although they had been apprehended by Carabineros, but strangely on their return trip they did it clandestinely.Chilean General Fernando Matthei confirmed in an interview with the Finis Terrae University Research and Documentation Center in 1999 that there was constant cooperation at the highest level with the United Kingdom throughout the war.Shortly before, Margaret Thatcher would also make it public to defend Pinochet during his detention in the United Kingdom.General Pinochet was very upset by the incident, but it was only at the beginning, since in the future he would use that help without consulting on his behalf. At first he wanted to punish the Head of the FACH, but then Matthei made him understand that national security was in danger, in addition to needing a link to acquire weapons and spare parts for the outdated Chilean air force.The support helicopter, another Sea King with registration ZA-292, returned to HMS Invincible.Operation Mikado was canceled and the Admiralty continued its reconquest plans under threat from the Exocet.Indeed, on the same day, the British government gave Admiral Woodward the green light for a landing on the east coast of the San Carlos Strait, which separates the two largest Malvinas islands. A risky operation that will force ships to enter a strait surrounded by mountains; the perfect place to suffer low-level attacks by Argentine aviation.Maj. Matthew would assert his influences as a former air attache in Britain and in the postwar period Chileans improved their early warning detection systems, radars on their bomber planes, some new patrol aircraft, etc.For its part, the FACH would do the same by obtaining new ships, some of them veterans from the Malvinas and who had been severely damaged by the FAA and ARA in aero-naval attacks. Matthei exploded in anger when M.Thatcher made known to the world the friendship between the British and Chilean forces, and much more that Pinochet allowed it and did not secretly kill him. Maybe it was a return of mutual betrayals ... "The mission of the British Sea KingThere was a preliminary British reconnaissance mission to Rio Grande, the code name of the Operation was "Plum Duff", it was launched from HMS Invincible on the night of May 17/18, as a prelude to the attack.The operation consisted of transporting a small SAS team to the Argentine side in Tierra del Fuego in a simple Royal Navy aircraft, a Westland Sea King Mark IV, which would then go to the Rio Grande air base and proceed to establish an observation post to collect intelligence from the base's defenses.The mission required the Sea King helicopter to travel a distance close to its operating range, so this would be a one-way mission. Therefore, the mission of the crew consisted of dropping the SAS team in Argentina, towards Chile, and the subsequent elimination of the aircraft with the sinking in deep water.May 18, 1982 - Royal Navy Sea King HAS2 XZ573 826 Naval Air Squadron - Wikipedia abandoned two miles from HMS Hermes in the South Atlantic due to radio altimeter failure when hovering, crew rescued and helicopter sunk by naval fire due to the proximity of the enemy.Incident Westland Sea King HAS5 XZ573, 18 May 1982The helicopter, with a crew of three men and eight men from the SAS team, took off from the Invincible at 0015 hours on May 18.Do to an unexpected encounter with a drilling rig in an offshore gas field, he was forced to swerve, adding an additional twenty minutes to the journey. As it was approaching the Argentine coast, after four hours the fog forced it to fly with visibility less than a mile.As they approached twelve miles to the landing of the SAS-planned discharge, visibility was reduced to such an extent that the pilot was forced to land.The pilot and the SAS patrol commander did not agree on their exact position, while the SAS commander was also certain that they had been seen by an Argentine patrol.He asked to be dropped on the border of Argentina and Chile.The pilots were forced to fly with the instruments through instrumental weather conditions in an alleged neutral Chile.The SAS team was dropped off on the south shore of "Useless Bay" where they were going to try to move to their observation post on foot.The failure of the insert operationThe helicopter crew flew to a beach near Punta Arenas where they landed. One of the two pilots and the "Air Crewman" landed on the beach. They made holes in the helicopter to allow it to sink once it was abandoned. The other pilot attempted to pose him above the water, but was unable to sink him. He flew back to the beach in order to add more holes to it, but was blinded in his night vision goggles by a blinking "Low Fuel" light, and he crashed onto the beach.The crew set fire to the helicopter and detonated explosive charges before leaving the scene. They moved over several nights to an observation point near Punta Arenas, where they attempted to make contact with the British from the Embassy. They were discovered earlier, captured by Carabinieri as they moved through the city, and were turned over to the British authorities.According to Argentine sources, on the night of May 17/18, the helicopter was located by the radar of the destroyer ARA Bouchard, which sent a message to its twin ARA Piedrabuena patrolling in the north, and then to the Rio Grande air base.Members of the 24th Infantry Regiment claimed in 2007 that they shook the helicopter with small arms fire amid thick fog south of Río Gallegos.The SAS reconnaissance mission was eventually aborted.Argentina safe from continental penetration:AbandonmentLack of intelligence at the scene meant that British forces had no clear idea of ​​how Rio Grande was defended, nor any guarantee that the Super Etendard or Exocet missiles were even there when the operation was carried out. The British forces also had no information on how the base was organized, and they did not know where the Exocet missiles were kept or even where the pilots' barracks were.At that time, Operation Mikado, which was already seen by experienced members of the SAS that was a suicide mission, is considered to be impossible to achieve, due to the loss of the wow factor and due to British Intelligence discovering that Argentines They had much better radar coverage than initially anticipated.Consequently, the airborne assault plan drew considerable hostility from some members of the SAS, which ultimately led a sergeant to tender his resignation shortly before the team was scheduled to travel to Ascension. The squadron commander is relieved and replaced by the second-in-command regiment.Ultimately, the Thatcher government recognized that there was a high probability that the operation would be a failure.Contrary to rumors, no plan was devised to infiltrate the SAS in Argentina with the help of the Royal Navy submarine "HMS Onyx" (According to the British version).The Argentine Navy claims that D-29 Bouchard had bombarded a submarine and a number of inflatable boats during a patrol two miles from Río Grande, at position 53 ° 43'38.04 "S 67 ° 42'0" W, in the night of May 16, 1982.*Video:Configuration-Subtitles-Automatically Translate-EnglishEvaluationAfter the war, ARA commanders admitted that they were expecting some form of landing from the SAS forces, but that they would never expect a Hercules to appear on the ground directly in their tracks, despite the fact that British forces have been followed, including in Chilean territory in case of attack.The failure of the operation would have been a disaster, and would be used as propaganda against the British forces, and on the contrary, there would be an increase in morale for Argentina.On the other hand, in the political sphere, Ireland and Italy are opposed to the economic blockade against Argentina that day and which was agreed to last a week.They got lost 05 x Sea King.The ZA311 crashed into the sea in bad weather at night and sank. Crewman Kevin Casey (26) died. Rescued pilot..Kevin CaseyAccident Westland Sea King HC4 ZA311, 23 Apr 1982The ZA132 was lost on May 12 in an accident while hovering alongside the Hermes aircraft carrier. The helicopter lost power, fell into the sea and while floating a wave hit it causing the propellers to hit the water and destroy the machine.Incident Westland Sea King HAS5 ZA132, 12 May 1982The ZA290 lost on the night of May 18 in the vicinity of Punta Arenas, Chile. The helicopter brought special forces from the SAS to carry out offensive operations in conjunction with special forces from the same group, against Argentine airplanes and pilots, but had a malfunction and made an emergency landing, to be later set on fire and hidden together with the Chilean government.The ZA294 was lost in a night accident on May 19 as it prepared to land fully loaded with personnel (30 people), on the assault ship HMS Intrepid. She apparently suffered a loss of power from ingesting a bird in an engine, causing the machine to fall inverted into the sea. 21 people died.Accident Westland Sea King HC4 ZA294, 19 May 1982Air Service Special RegimentEach man's parent unit (which they belonged to before joining the SAS) is displayed after their rank.Most of the SAS casualties occurred on May 19, 1982, when a helicopter circling while waiting to land on a Royal Navy ship fell into the sea.The bodies of some SAS men were returned to Great Britain to be buried in the SAS section of St Martin's Cemetery in Hereford, near a former SAS base.Others were buried in the sea.Raymond Ernest Armstrong, Cpl (or Trooper), Royal Green Jackets. Died 19 May 1982, aged 29.John Leslie Arthy, Sgt, Welsh Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 27. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Malcolm Atkinson, WO1, Coldstream Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 36. Of Barnsley, Yorkshire.William John Begley, Cpl, Royal Corps of Transport. Died 19 May 1982, aged 32. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Paul Alan Bunker, Sgt (or Cpl), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Died 19 May 1982, aged 28. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Robert Allan Burns, Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 22. Of Dundee.Philip Preston Currass QGM, Sgt, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 19 May 1982, aged 34.Sidney Albert Ivor Davidson, Sgt, Parachute Regt. Died 19 May 1982, aged 34. His widow Elizabeth lived in Chepstow.Lawrence Gallagher BEM, Warrant Officer. Died 19 May 1982, aged 37.Gavin John Hamilton MC, Captain, Green Howards. Died 15 June 1982, aged 29.William Clark Hatton QGM BEM, Sgt, Parachute Regiment. Died 19 May 1982, aged 31. Of Motherwell, near Glasgow.William John Hughes, Sgt. Died 19 May 1982, aged 34. Of Pwllheli. Also commemorated on Pwllheli war memorial.Philip Jones, Sgt, Welsh Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 28. Of Hoddlesden, Lancashire.Paul Neville Lightfoot, L Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 21. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Michael Vincent McHugh, Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 22. Of Stockport, near Manchester.John Newton, Cpl, Royal Electrical and Mech Engineers. Died 19 May 1982, aged 22. Of Darlington.Patrick O’Connor, Staff Sgt, Irish Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 33.Stephen John Godfrey Sykes, Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 25. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Edward Thomas Walpole, Cpl, Royal Green Jackets. Died 19 May 1982, aged 36. Of north London.Falklands National Monument, CardiffThe XZ573 was lost in an accident on May 18, when it was hovering at night alongside the Hermes aircraft carrier. Apparently the altimeters were incorrectly configured and the pilot descended too low, landing, making it impossible to rescue the machine, which later served to adjust the naval guns, with Royal Navy firing at the helicopter.Incident Westland Sea King HAS5 XZ573, 18 May 1982What Andy Legg statedAlthough there were several rumors and news about it, and different British newspapers had spoken about it, an official word had never been heard of England's attempt to invade Argentina, seeking to destroy part of an arsenal in the province of Tierra del Fuego. Now, the team leader spoke about it.Andy Legg, captain of the British Special Air Service (SAS), revealed the details of the so-called 'Plum Duff' operation and his thoughts on it. “I don't think it would be very sensible to invade Argentina but we moved forward and did what they ordered us to do. It was different from any other task I had done before, "he said.According to him, the objective of the mission was to reach the Argentine military base in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, and destroy three Exocet missiles that Argentina had at that time. One of that style had been the cause of the sinking of the Destroyer HMS 'Sheffield', and the media reflected that, with another similar attack, "Great Britain could have lost the war."Legg was angry and sorry for this task and told all the details of the failure of it. As detailed, his unit had to travel 26 miles to the base, gather intelligence information and face the attack. However, the helicopter in which they moved on May 15, 1982, would have been detected by Argentine radars, so they could not land.The second point where they began their task by land was 40 miles from the objective and in Chilean territory, which began to make the task difficult. Then he remarked that the mission was not carried out due to lack of food, logistics and bad weather, which played against the British, who were rescued and transferred from Santiago de Chile."I was not blamed (for the failure of the mission) but inside me I felt bad because our colleagues had died in the South Atlantic and nothing happened to us," said the military man, who recently decided to sell his medals from the Falklands War and the Tierra del Fuego map that he used for the mission because of his anger.Fighting in Argentine territoryFifteen Argentine conscripts died in exchange of fire with British special forces during the Falklands War, says a book on the conflict written by a former member of the elite forces and that is sponsored by Prince Andrés.The book "Special Forces Pilot, flight memory in the Falklands war" was written by the helicopter pilot Colonel Richard Hutchines, and according to his own words these actions have been kept secret by both governments (Argentine and British) , but "several former conscripts" contacted him, "desperate to tell me about their experiences."“The conscripts affirm that their experience of war against the British enemy took place on the Argentine mainland in Patagonia, where some 3,000 conscripts operated alongside regular forces in the protection of airports, fuel depots at the Rio Grande and Rio air bases. Gallegos, to protect them from sabotage operations by British special forces ”, according to Colonel Hutchings.These conscripts allege that they clashed with SAS and SBS forces (*) in Argentine territory and "complain that their war service has never been recognized because the presence of British special forces on Argentine soil has always been denied."The Argentine losses resulting from these combats total fifteen. However, "national security reasons prevent me from making any further disclosures at this point," said the British colonel.The controversy is not new since in truth the original launch of his book dates from 2009, but a new publication, about the aborted operation of those forces to destroy airplanes and especially the fearsome Argentine Exocet missiles in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, and that culminated in the self-destruction of the helicopter and refuge in Chile for its members, has brought it back to life.Operation 'Plum Duff', which is described in the book 'Exocet Falklands', apparently had Colonel Hutchines among one of the Sea King helicopter pilots whose mission was to lead special forces to the base in Rio Grande.Not only did the mission not have the appropriate and up-to-date maps, but on the navigation route they crossed a well-lit and defended Argentine oil platform, which, added to the terrible weather conditions, forced them to fly to Chile, destroy the aircraft. and later surrender to the Chilean police.Operation 'Plum Duff' was kept top secret for more than 20 years but eventually leaked and Colonel Hutchines took advantage in the latest edition of his book (taking advantage of the release of 'Exocet Falklands') to add some more details about the situation in Argentina when the war."I have copies of official Argentine documents, including reports on incidents, and I have verified these with other reports, including fighting between Argentine troops and British special forces in various places."“The Argentine military losses from these incidents total 15 deaths. National security considerations prevent me from making any further disclosures at this point. " Hutchines did not provide details on British losses.Lists of dead and missing in actionMalvinas - Ex Combatientes - Lista de muertos y desaparecidos en acciónIn the foreword to the book by Prince Andrew, a former Sea King pilot states: “I was personally very proud to be on call, as a watch officer for 820 Squadron aboard HMS Invincible, to assist the crew of the Sea King on his one-way trip to Argentina ”.Report British SAS commandos captured(0)LONDON -- A seven-man British commando team was captured near the Argentine military base at Rio Gallegos over a month ago while on a reconnaissance and sabotage mission, The Sunday Times reported.ADVERTISEMENTThe newspaper, quoting senior U.S. intelligence officials in Washington, said the Special Air Services team was apparently using American-made mobile radar units to keep track of Super Etendards and Skyhawks flying from the mainland to strike the British task force off the Falkland Islands.The SAS is an elite group of British army volunteers who are trained as a fast-moving ruthless strike force that can adapt to any crisis from terrorist attacks to guerrilla wars to hijackings.The American sources said the seven-man team was part of a much larger SAS contingent sent for reconnaissance and sabotage, and there was 'some evidence' they had destroyed aircraft and fuel dumps.The men -- three officers and four enlisted men -- are being held in conditions so secret not even the International Red Cross had been told, the U.S. officials said. Argentina has confirmed holding only one British prisoner -- a Harrier pilot.The Times said Britain's decision to hold onto approximately 1,000 senior Argentine troops captured in the Falklands might be designed to win the release of the seven SAS men.An SAS team ended the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 by blasting free the staff and killing three gunmen.In their latest exploit, the SAS commandos apparently reached Argentina via Chile where they landed aboard task force helicopters. The Times said a Sea King helicopter that crashed near the Chilean port of Puenta Arenas around May 20 was part of the operation. The three-man crew was sent home to Britain.The Ministry of Defense said Sunday it had no information of any such operation, but a spokesman added, 'We never at any time discuss operations of our special services.'The motto of the secretive SAS is 'Who dares -- wins.' Their badge is a winged dagger to symbolize their swift, silent strikes. Each man is put through punishing mental and physical testing before acceptance, then trained as a frogman, mountaineer, medic, skiier, linguist and parachutist. Their average age is 26.Since the force's formation in 1942 in North Africa, secret SAS operations have included resisting communist infiltration of Persian Gulf oilfields, in the jungles of Borneo and in the deserts of Oman.In 1972, SAS men parachuted aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in mid-Atlantic after a telephone warning that the ship would be blown up if ransom of $250,000 was not paid.Report British SAS commandos capturedCombat of the House of Puerto Enriqueta (Port Harriet House).Two Scout Groups of the Scots Guards were repulsed by troops from RI 4 on the afternoon of that day, with anti-aircraft missile fire and 120mm heavy mortars. The British without fulfilling their mission, withdrew with several wounded. "MALVINAS on the first line" - Ed. Edivérn - Pag. 305.120 mm mortars on positions of the 2nd Scots Guards They dig in below Goat Ridge.Scots Guards casualties are evacuated by a Westland Wessex HU.5 and a Westland Scout AH.1 from Goat Ridge.The Battle for Tumbledown. A casualty of the Scots Guards is rushed by stretcher to a Gazelle helicopter for evacuation on Goat Ridge, below Mount Harriet.Wounded Scots Guards head to a Scout helicopter for evacuation, IWM (FKD 317).SAS / SBS: COMBAT CAMBERS.The attempted coup hand CambersBritish boats destroyed after such actionAdvancement of our report Combat Cambers where SAS and SBS more Royal Engineers planned one of the worst war missions ... therefore hardly speak of this incident ....The British were close but not open fire orders waiting to clarify the situation, not to betray the position and coordinate the fires of the hills and canyons HS 30mm Anti-aircraft battery 101. The boats were far GADA 300/400 job meters Loma 1 100/200 meters from Loma Loma 500/600 2 and 3 wherein the GUIM Barrios had a 12.7 machine gun with night sight, with which clearly observed at 3 boats and expected orders to shoot.Map Operation Cambers.Simultaneously with the Land Command in Puerto Argentino who has beat the area with mortars of 120 mm of RI RI 6 and 3 .... 30 mm Anti air, infants with FAL, several mortars MAG reported more than two Regiments would give one volume really hellfire.Started the fire to order, was led by the 12.7 trazantes Loma 3, Knoll MAG machine guns 1 and 2 and 3 Rifles Lomas (approximately 30 shooters) and then the focus of the guns Hispano Suiza EA. Given this volume of fire the enemy starts withdrawal.The boats were at 100/200 m of Loma 2, Knoll 300/400 m 1 and m Loma 500/600 3. I ordered the white flag with 12.7 mm and I beat two MAG and 20 / 30 soldiers.The boats start covering the withdrawal by fire, when I throw them an illuminant that surprised in the middle of the water, the British as always cast the blame Irizar but it was not so ... our ship following the precepts of the Red Cross never lit the British boats.Around ten o'clock, a group of three helicopters SH-3 Sea King of the British Navy, approached the remains of the SBS and SAS scattered on the beach kept hanging in the air, fell staff ropes began to collect all evidence of combat, they loaded one by one the bodies in plastic bags with zip and collected all existing materials, weapons, helmets, boats, radios, night vision goggles, jackets, etc., uploading them to the helicopters by winches of her starboard side.The British declared only 3 minor injuries.English documentary about the incursion of the Special Forces SAS and SBS on the Peninsula Chambers:* Video:Murrell River Counterambush June 6, 1982Left to right: Captain Ricardo Frecha, Lieutenant Juan Emilger, Lieutenant Marcelo Anadon, Medical Captain Pablo Llanos and 1st Lieutenant Alejandro Brizuela.On June 6, 1982, another command action was carried out. This time an ambush is planned for the English paratrooper patrols that carried out reconnaissance and attacked the Argentine patrols. For this reason, the 2nd Commando section of Company 601, together with elements from the Alacrán Square of the National Gendarmerie, headed towards the bridge over the Murrell River, where the British were operating. In the night hours, while occupying the positions, they were surprised by a squad of paratroopers who saw them approaching through night visors. Despite suffering an injury, our Commandos react under the English attack, and flee to the British, capturing important teams. The image shows two captured trophies: a small British flag, and in the center Lieutenant Marcelo Anadon with a beret of the English No. 3 Parachute Regiment.*Video:Photographic roll captured in the combat of the MURREL BRIDGE.Mount Wall ExpeditionAn Argentine patrol that was carrying out an advanced combat mission, belonging to the 3rd Section of Shooters / Company "B" / RI 4, engaged in combat against a reconnaissance section of the 42nd Royal Marines Command; our troops are supported with fire from 81mm mortars from the Support Section / Ca "B" / RI 4. "MALVINAS on the front line" - Ed. Edivérn - Page 265.On June 1, Intelligence was able to determine that English troops were trying to infiltrate the small racecourse in the town, and for that reason, that same night, asked the CC601 men to ambush the site in order to counter any attempt.Castagneto's troops were located around the track and waited all night for an attack that was never carried out. There was evidence, also of a possible hit against the Tiger Cat missile tanks and for that reason, a CC602 platoon was stationed nearby to prevent it.On the morning of June 3, a section was dispatched to Mount Challenger, well ahead of its own lines, 1 under the command of First Lieutenant Jorge Vizoso Posse.This Tucumán officer was going to be the protagonist of one of the most curious and spectacular events of the war. Aldo Rico's trusted man, for him, the combat actions were nothing new because he had fought against the subversive forces that operated in his native province between 1975 and 1976, taking part in numerous encounters and commando coups against enemy camps. For that reason, by the time he reached the islands, he was quite a veteran.Their mission was to reach the mentioned elevation, make observations and then retreat to their own lines.The section left Puerto Argentino in the afternoon, aboard two Land Rovers seized from the Falklands. At around 5:00 p.m. they were left at the base of the mountain from where they contacted First Lieutenant Carlos Arroyo, head of the RI4 section stationed there, to report their presence in the area.Vizoso Posse knew perfectly well that the enemy radars were going to detect any movement made by his platoon, because they had sophisticated detection equipment and that forced him to draw up a plan.A highly enlightened man, a member of one of the most distinguished families in Tucumán, he observed that on the islands, flocks of sheep grazed freely on the peat and that gave him an idea. As Ruiz Moreno relates, the experienced officer recalled Ulises' exploits during his return trip to Ithaca and immediately knew what to do. The Greek hero and his warriors had escaped from the giant Polyphemus disguising himself as sheep and Vizoso would do something similar although with a small variant. The giant he had to face was different from the cyclops of southern Sicily because that one only had one eye, while the other had dozens. For this reason it would move with its people following the movement of the herds, that is, going a few meters in the middle of them, stopping when they did, stopping them where they should go, stopping when they did, and so on until they reached the mountain. Challenger 2.The plan gave excellent results and in that way, when the clocks showed 22.00, they reached the top of the hill to set up their PO. They focused on Mount Kent just as the clouds cleared and a splendid moon lit up the region.Equipped with night visors, the commandos were able to observe the incessant deployment of helicopters transporting their hanging loads (especially artillery), something really impressive for an inexperienced but not for them, accustomed to the show as they were.They stayed on top all night, taking note of every move, and before dawn they started back using the same ploy they had used to get there.Aldo Rico was waiting for them on Mount Enriqueta and from there they went to Stanley House, the command post of the X Brigade, where they met with General Jofre to update him on the latest news.When they entered their tame post, the high officer looked at Vizoso Posse with displeasure for being soaked and covered in mud from head to toe. The Argentine generals repaired these details.The command reported in detail what was observed but shortly after it began to realize that his superior did not believe him and even questioned his sayings, then Vizoso tried to give his opinion but his superior cut him short by ordering him not to make personal assessments. That worried Rico and the first lieutenant himself, who understood that the general, like the entire high command, was completely lacking in offensive reaction and in this way it would be impossible to win the war.After the unpleasant meeting, Rico and Castagneto decided to plan a raid on Mount Wall and another on the Murrell River bridge where an enemy presence had been detected.The Infantry Regiment 4 had been reporting for some time that movements were observed on the slopes of the mentioned hill and that a section sent there received grained fire. For that reason, on June 5 Rico resolved to attack, launching an operation to evict the British from the area.To do this, he previously dispatched an advance platoon made up of five men under the command of Captain Fernández Funes and his second, Second Lieutenant Dámaso Soraides.The patrol started south and after several hours was able to determine that the road to Fitz Roy was clear. In view of this, Rico and his men moved to Mount Enriqueta where First Lieutenant Roberto Eito guided them through a minefield.The previous day, the Para 2 chief made the famous phone call to the administrator of Swan House, who had informed him that the area (Fitz Roy) was cleared of Argentines.After coordinating artillery fire support with Group 3 under Lieutenant Colonel Martín A. Balza and incorporating Captain Ferrero's 3rd Section, the twelve commandos set off heading southwest, looking for Mount Wall.The people of Rico were advancing on the peat field when, before dark, they noticed enemy movement in the vicinity of Bluff Cove, very close to the town of Fitz Roy. They were para 2 troops who had come to fight on the Darwin isthmus and were moving to a new position.In view of this, Rico decided to return to Mount Enriqueta to communicate his observations to First Lieutenant Arroyo (RI4), who at that time regulated the artillery fire of the 5th Marine Infantry Battalion (BIM5).Rico realized that they were falling short and in view of this, he took the phone in his hands and began to regulate himself, significantly improving the range of fire (although the first of the shots almost fell in the middle of his people).The 602 commandos ate at the Arroyo post, with whom they coordinated the following movements and at around 9:30 pm they resumed the march, leaving the communications officer, Enrique Stel, with the people of the regiment to liaise with the guns of Balza.The Argentine commandos moved with the inconveniences generated by the peat terrain and an hour later, a few meters from the hill. they stopped because according to plan, the guns of Artillery Group 3 began to beat the region.The projectiles, directed by Rico himself through the radio, crushed the field around the elevation, especially its summit, until at his request the people of Balza ceased the cannonade. It was time to start the assault, occupy the hill and evict the English from there, which is why, from that moment, the following shots should be fired at the express request of the command chief.At a signal from his superior, Rico's men began to climb the slope, moving in a chain and in absolute silence, always under cover of darkness. During the advance they passed the body of an RI4 soldier killed days ago, surely when Lieutenant Arroyo first sent his observation section in that direction and soon after they reached the first point indicated during the planning of the mission, where the soldiers searched protection behind some rocks. There they waited until their boss gave them the order to stand up and charge up, preceded by First Lieutenant Lauría, whose excellent physical condition allowed him to gain the lead and leave his teammates behind.Lauría would not have stopped his march if a shadow that moved in front of him had not forced him to stop and cover himself.The officer threw himself to the ground, crushing himself on the ground behind a rock, and pointed his gun at the bundle. But almost immediately he lowered it because whoever was standing there was none other than Aldo Rico himself reached the top before the section.Once at the summit, the Argentines found that there was no one; the place was deserted and there were no enemies anywhere. Harassed by artillery fire, the British had evacuated the site, backing up in disarray.It was a typical observation post mounted on site to regulate cannon fire and aviation attacks.On his retreat, the enemy abandoned his equipment, namely tents, sleeping bags, a manual battery charger, communication codes (without his passwords), lamps, rations, a telephone, and even a radio turned on, in addition to backpacks with minor items.Checking the objects, the commandos found a booby trap, two activated grenades under a poncho, and some blood-stained stones, evidence that at least one of the English was wounded.British versions offer an idea of ​​what that small Argentine victory meant:The example that things could have been otherwise came on June 2, when two forward observation artillery teams from the forward air control escorted by Lt. Mawhood's 42nd Exploration Troop ran into serious trouble. . After attracting the Argentines' attention for free by firing on an RI4 patrol across the valley, Mawhood's soldiers were stunned when Rico's 602nd Command sped up trucks on Wall from Puerto Argentino and began to scale the slope. The Marines and fire control teams rushed out, leaving behind their backpacks, sleeping bags, and other belongings. Among the abandoned items was one of two laser pointers sent to the islands to guide the "smart bombs" that the Harriers began dropping - again courtesy of Caspar Weinberger - toward the end of the conflict. The forward air traffic controller destroyed the laser before fleeing, but it was still a major setback. Even worse was that the Exploration Troops were forced to leave the heights by Caleta Trullo, because by then no one could survive on Mount Challenger without sleeping bags. But worst of all was having lost Mount Wall, which caused Vaux enormous anguish until the mount was reoccupied twenty-four hours later.The commandos loaded the captured objects to hand it over to the Intelligence people and proceeded to leave the mount because knowing that they had been recaptured, the British would start the cannon fire on it.Rico personally undertook a tour of the surroundings, descending the summit on the opposite side while in the distance the enemy followed his movements. It was then that once again he took it, gave it to request artillery fire, and it was immediate.The Balza people and the British launched a violent exchange of fire that kept Rico's people pinned in the middle.In the heat of the gunshot, First Lieutenant Enrique Stel communicated from Mount Enriqueta that they had to withdraw from the area because Intelligence expected a massive attack on the sector. And since their presence there was no longer justified, Rico ordered the withdrawal, beginning a painful march that became extremely overwhelming when, upon reaching the agreed point, the Land Rovers that were to pick them up were not there.In view of this and seeing the state of exhaustion of his men, the head of the CC602 ordered to stop to regain strength and ration, which they received with real approval, throwing themselves on the frozen mob.At that precise moment the routine naval gunship began, forcing the commandos to get up and restart the march. Thirty minutes later the Land Rovers appeared under the command of Captain De la Serna and they scrambled over them after locating their own equipment and captured material inside.They arrived at Puerto Argentino without major inconveniences, knowing that they had pushed the enemy back, forcing them to abandon a good part of their supplies (on the way they had consumed the rations).Royal Marine Corps equipment captured by Commando Company 602 on Mount Wall.According to Captain Hugo Ranieri of the 3rd Assault Section of the Commando Company 602:We ran into a really capable enemy there, with very good support elements, weapons and riflescopes. The truth is that they surprised a wing of our ambush. We entered into a very violent combat, with a lot of fire from the enemy. Many flares that forced the head down a little, until they passed. We also had to detect where the flashes came from. Those first moments are to get a little organized and see where the thing comes from. There were many shouts from the enemy as they gave the orders out loud. We already had two dead and two wounded. The enemy was really doing things very well. The combat was very hard. Sergeant Mario Cisneros fell dead and at his side lieutenant first Jorge Vizoso was wounded in his positions, lower to the left. What happened with Vizoso is very remarkable. One of those grenades or a disposable mortar the English had wounded the first lieutenant, who was lying face down. He had several splinters in his skull and was stunned by the explosion. The enemy leaned in and tried to finish him off with a FAL shot: this caused a wound in the middle of his back, sloping up to the left ... The English kicked him around and he played dead. At that time, these Englishmen retreated due to the fire. The first lieutenant, who had now seen them face up, tried to slap the MAG that had Sergeant Mario Cisneros dead beside him. The machine gun was split in half but found its FAL and emptied a magazine from the moving enemy column, killing three Englishmen. We shouted at him and he climbed into my position. To all this, I was making support fire with a 300-caliber Magnum rifle with a telescopic sight along with a gendarmerie command of those who operated with us. We were in the highest position compared to the rest and the combat was very well controlled, but we also received a lot of fire from the enemy. Behind a rock I reviewed it and I already related his wounds as well as the miraculousness of the bullet as stopped by the Rosary.He was semi-crazy but whole and very aggressive. I would say he was angry. He asked me to be empowered to continue the combat and then he took his rifle, changed the magazine and continued to fire. The fight continued, giving us everything on both sides. This lasted between twenty and thirty minutes, so it was a fairly long fight. Until it culminated in the withdrawal of the enemy. Specifically, I would say that we beat them. As we had coordinated the artillery fire, Major Aldo Rico ordered the opening of the fire and it began to fall on the retreating enemy. We indicated that they lengthen the shot as they left, that is, we ran them with guns. I appreciate that many Englishmen must have died that night because our artillery fire was tremendousAccording to the official version of the British Minister of Defense, Sergeant Robert Leeming, corporals Andrew Uren and Peter Fitton and the royal marine Keith Phillips lost their lives on the night of June 9-10, and three royal marines were hit by the automatic weapons and shards. British war correspondent Robert Fox was able to interview two more of the British evacuated from the combat, one who suffered hearing loss due to numerous detonations of anti-tank weapons, bursting of the eardrums (crushing of the internal organs of the ears) and another who twisted his leg across the Murrell River during the escape of Stewart's men.*Video:The Many Branch Point SkirmishTwo enemy commandos in the Malvinas: the Argentine captured him and protected him from the cold and when he fell prisoner, the English comforted him.Commands from the 601st Regiment that operated on the Gran Malvina Island, one of them carrying an Blow Pipe anti-aircraft missile on his backGavin John Hamilton was not just any command. In 45 days of conflict, the captain of SAS Mountain Squadron 19 (Special Air Service) had successfully dabbled in the boldest ground operations in the South Atlantic.Along with his troops, amid subhuman weather conditions, the English officer had survived the fall of his helicopter on the Fortuna glacier in Georgia. Two days later, he was leading the outpost against enemy positions in Grytviken when, outnumbered and outgunned, Argentine troops surrendered in Georgia.One of two British helicopters crashed by winds of 200 km per hour on the Fortuna glacier in Georgia.Wessex HAS.3 (XP142) Humphrey helicopter damage with bullet impacts from combat in the Georgias Islands.http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/howard_mason3/has_3_xp142/That victory - baptized Operation Paraquat by the British - was just the prelude to what he would star later: on Bourbon Island, in the extreme north of the Great Malvina, Hamilton and his people descended at dawn from a Chinook, reached the Naval Air Station on foot Calderón and they cannibalized with explosive charges, mortars and rockets an entire fleet of planes: 6 IA 58 Pucara, 4 Beechcraft T-34 Mentor and one Skyvan transport.One of the 6 Pucara destroyed on May 15 on Bourbon Island by Captain John Hamilton of the SASThe assault had been masterfully executed: reissuing SAS operations at North African airfields during World War II, in 30 minutes they reduced all 11 ships to scrap metal, eliminating air defense from that strategic base for disembarkation in San Carlos.Another mission enlightened its leadership among the mountain troopers: in Darwin it ambushed and captured 5 Argentines (3 wounded). But now Hamilton, 29, operated on the other side of the strait. From the watchtower of a massif, a mixture of sharp stones and wet peat, he presided over an observation patrol in Puerto Miter (Howard). Infiltrated behind the Argentine lines, he had been sending coded and precise reports for five days on the movements of the isolated Infantry Regiment 5 (RI5).Soldiers of the Special Forces of the Army of Command 601 as well as those of RI5 suffered all kinds of deprivations in Port Howard, on the island of Gran Malvina.Neither Hamilton nor Fonseka sensed the impending threat; that kind of danger that sometimes begets chance: another patrol of the 1st Section of the Company of Commands 601, as well trained as they, returned from a mission identical to theirs: to scrutinize the deployment of ships with their eyes and ears , helicopters and troops from the coast of the San Carlos Strait.Captain John Hamilton of the SAS Mountain TroopsLed by First Lieutenant José Martiniano Duarte, seconded by Sergeants Eusebio "Negro" Moreno and Francisco "Mono" Altamirano and Corporal Roberto "el Terco" Ríos, the patrol had been marching in a cross country since 5 am. It was a tactical, stealthy displacement. The commandos communicated by sign and covered all the flanks: one at the front, one at the rear and the rest on each side with the weight of the radio equipment.The clock struck 11 when the column decided to stop and rotate the formation. Behind a rocky ridge the commandos lightened their burdens and fooled the cold with the remnant of a canteen with cooked mate. There were still 5 km to reach the Argentine ranks in the town of Howard, when the advanced Moreno and Duarte resumed their march suddenly stopped. At about 50 meters they pointed to a rocky wall in height, and with their indexes on their lips they imposed silence.-There is someone there - the leader warned with a whisper when marking the point.-They're talking on the radio. They are English! - Moreno retorted.-No, they can be kelpers. Or maybe the ECA (Air Control Team, in charge of early warnings) - the boss hesitated.The tension and the gush of cortisol increased as they deliberated. The teams were released and they were sheltered with their FAL in combat position.-No, no, they are English. I heard them well - Moreno insisted, in a clear offensive harangue.Suddenly, Altamirano spotted a dark cap among the stones.-High! -he ordered to the shouts- Are they Argentines?The answer came instantly through a fierce flurry of M16 rifles, followed by a long-slashing grenade. The Argentine commandos opened fire and Moreno threw two hand grenades.Cornered and outnumbered, the SAS began a retreat down the hill: Fonseka ran and fired while his boss covered for him. In that intense crossfire, with tracing projectiles on the Argentine side, the precision of an impact blew the rifle out of his hands. When he wanted to retrieve it, 4 other projectiles grazed him and pierced his grim reaper. The volleys continued for a short time until Hamilton's escaping body "took a turn in the air" and collapsed on its back. He lay motionless in the stunted, wet undergrowth.A few feet from Hamilton's body, Sergeant Fonseka, grounded in the grass, slightly raised his hands.- Stop the fire, stop the fire! Give up, give up - Altamirano screamed desperately. He was trying to temper the din and adrenaline of his comrades in that fight for survival.Without saying a word, their hands now raised high, they ordered the Englishman to walk to the commandos. Duarte didn't trust himself and everyone kept pointing at him. He ordered Altamirano to touch him and Ríos to help the fallen man and remove the weapon. As he approached, the corporal found that Hamilton had died instantly. He followed a few steps and checked the English teams sheltered behind that stony "shield". A radio beacon remained on, which meant that another patrol could come to the aid and ambush them. As he did not know how to cut the transmission, he smashed and kicked the radio.The tombstone in Port Howard that recalls the exact place where Hamilton was hidden before falling in combat. The British officer was awarded postmortem for the bravery he showed in confronting the Argentine commandos and in covering his comrade.The death of the enemy soldier whose identity they did not know shook the commandos, all devout Catholics.In Fonseka's shoulder holster, Altamirano discovered a 9mm pistol. Under his fist he read, exalted: "Domingo Mateu Military Weapons Factory. Rosario-Argentina."In very rudimentary English, he demanded an explanation from the prisoner:-Army, army argie - Altamirano pointed nervously, mistaking "weapon" for "army": This what?"Darwin," Fonseka blurted out, in the midst of uncertainty about his fate and perhaps his own survival.The patrol split into two groups to return by different routes. The chief and the Mono Altamirano walked with the prisoner, while the others carried their equipment and their radio turned off to avoid detection."Let's make this poor man lower his arms, who must be cramped by now," suggested the subordinate, who was supporting him from behind, still pointing his FAL at his back."Yes, yes, let him lower them," agreed Duarte.They crossed a stream with water up to the waist and shortly before entering Port Howard the chief ordered him to go ahead and look for a group of commandos to "put on a poncho" and "camouflage the Englishman." That meant making him go unnoticed by the soldiers under the prying eyes of the kelpers.

OPERATION PLUM DUFF IN TIERRA DEL FUEGOStatements of the British military "It confirms what we have been saying for many years"Falklands war veteran Juan Carlos Alderete said that the statements of the captain of the British Special Air Service Andy Legg, who revealed the details of the so-called Operation 'Plum Duff', "confirms what we have been saying for many years."“On March 10, a statement by an British officer, Captain Andy Legg, who was in charge of a mission that was to infiltrate SAS commandos here in Tierra del Fuego, more precisely in Rio Grande, in an operation called Plum, appeared in the British media. Duff. He landed in the north of the island by means of Sea King helicopters –there were two of them- and they came from the Invincible aircraft carrier (HMS Invincible - R05) ”, explained Alderete.He added that one of these helicopters “reaches a certain area on the border with Chile, closer to the border with Chile because there was only one line where the Chilean military were on one side and the Argentine military on the other. Our soldiers were just waiting for this helicopter that came from the Invincible because the other helicopter is shot down near the Strait of Magellan by a Blowpipe rocket and it is destroyed, falling all the pieces in the water and all its occupants are dead. "He explained that “this helicopter was shot down by the Argentine marines who were stationed near the border with Chile, in the north of the island of Tierra del Fuego. The other English helicopter tries to reach the coast and when it does so and wants to lower its occupants, it was also repelled by the infants who were in the area waiting ”.Alderete said that “that helicopter takes flight, being damaged and flies to the Chilean sector - 80 kilometers north of Punta Arenas and there it is 'crashed' in the same way that it happened with another English helicopter in Agua Fresca, and the crew delivery to Chileans in Santiago de Chile. This device was involved in Operation 'Plum Duff' ”.He specified that “this second helicopter that Andy Legg declares that he had tried to penetrate Tierra del Fuego –after being tried to shoot down by the Argentines- takes flight and goes to Punta Loyola where it is hit by the shots of the soldier Nelson Vivas of the self-described 'Ghost Company 'and it is damaged and falls about eighty kilometers to the north and as I said, its occupants surrender to the Chilean authorities in Santiago de Chile, directly ”.The other incident with a British helicopter occurred in Agua Fresca, 18 kilometers south of Punta Arenas, also in the framework of Operation 'Plum Duff' but it was manned by the then Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hutchines, his helicopter was also a Sea King , registration ZA 290; This aircraft lands near Estancia Sara, north of Río Grande, where it leaves eight members of the SAS, with the same objective of reconnaissance on the ground and in the face of Operation 'Plum Duff' they also aimed to attack the Naval Air Base Rio Grande and destroy the three remaining Exocet AM 39 missiles, destroy the Super Etendard planes, kill the pilots and on their flight to Chile, destroy whatever gets in their way, "said the interviewee.He added that “that helicopter is 'crashed' on purpose 18 kilometers south of Punta Arenas, in a sector called Agua Fresca. Last year I was in that sector, I asked permission because it is private property, I traveled because I wanted to know if any vestige of the machine survived; I made some recordings, I made some audios and I found the place thanks to the only photo that was circulating and it was a yellow machine that was covering a helicopter that could be seen from afar ”.He assured that he found the journalist from La Prensa Austral, José Villarroel, “he took the photos that morning and had a lot of problems, he spent a week without being able to leave his house because the Chilean police and military were waiting for him because they wanted to take the camera out of him and they didn't want me to post the photos. Exactly the day the photos were taken, she was riding in a Lada Niva that had the La Prensa Austral logo on the door. He locked himself in his vehicle and did not let them take out his camera with the photos of the British helicopter that Chilean machines were covering him ”.OPERATION CODE ANGLOCHILEAN MIKADO.Mikado operationPhotos: The Royal Marines pose smiling With police officers -RM During the round conference at the British Embassy in Santiago de Chile -The Sea King helicopter remains are hidden Whose by a bulldozer Against Journalists and witnesses in Punta Arenas -Gen. Matthei Cte. the Fach*Video:The British thought that after the sinking of the ARA Belgrano, the Argentine Navy would take refuge in the ports so as not to be within reach of the nuclear submarines and the other warships not to fight the rest of the war. But it was not so, they simply took refuge in shallower waters to make it difficult for the submarines to chase.The Argentine Navy would find the rest of the war patrolling the Argentine Sea and territorial waters adjacent to the southern Atlantic and the border with Chile.As they feared, the ZA-290 was detected by Argentine radars and Lieutenant Hutchings of the Royal Marines decided to cancel the operation and head directly to Chile.Book Surveillance and Air Control in Argentina - The image shows the traces of the almost five minutes that the Sea King ZA290 was on the radar screen. The first trace occurs at 4:28 AM when, according to the crew, it touched down to disembark the SAS team. At that moment, Legg felt that the place was not safe and had a disagreement with the pilot about where the commando group should descend. Finally, it continued towards Chile.The device was abandoned and destroyed by its occupants, but the truth is that they returned to the United Kingdom by regular flight and without any problem, which would confirm the Chilean involvement in the conflict on the British side (officially, "they surrendered to the Chilean authorities "But at no time were they treated as prisoners of war, but as allied fighters).They hid themselves in the British embassy although they had been apprehended by Carabineros, but strangely on their return trip they did it clandestinely.Chilean General Fernando Matthei confirmed in an interview with the Finis Terrae University Research and Documentation Center in 1999 that there was constant cooperation at the highest level with the United Kingdom throughout the war.Shortly before, Margaret Thatcher would also make it public to defend Pinochet during his detention in the United Kingdom.General Pinochet was very upset by the incident, but it was only at the beginning, since in the future he would use that help without consulting on his behalf. At first he wanted to punish the Head of the FACH, but then Matthei made him understand that national security was in danger, in addition to needing a link to acquire weapons and spare parts for the outdated Chilean air force.The support helicopter, another Sea King with registration ZA-292, returned to HMS Invincible.Operation Mikado was canceled and the Admiralty continued its reconquest plans under threat from the Exocet.Indeed, on the same day, the British government gave Admiral Woodward the green light for a landing on the east coast of the San Carlos Strait, which separates the two largest Malvinas islands. A risky operation that will force ships to enter a strait surrounded by mountains; the perfect place to suffer low-level attacks by Argentine aviation.Maj. Matthew would assert his influences as a former air attache in Britain and in the postwar period Chileans improved their early warning detection systems, radars on their bomber planes, some new patrol aircraft, etc.For its part, the FACH would do the same by obtaining new ships, some of them veterans from the Malvinas and who had been severely damaged by the FAA and ARA in aero-naval attacks. Matthei exploded in anger when M.Thatcher made known to the world the friendship between the British and Chilean forces, and much more that Pinochet allowed it and did not secretly kill him. Maybe it was a return of mutual betrayals ... "The mission of the British Sea KingThere was a preliminary British reconnaissance mission to Rio Grande, the code name of the Operation was "Plum Duff", it was launched from HMS Invincible on the night of May 17/18, as a prelude to the attack.The operation consisted of transporting a small SAS team to the Argentine side in Tierra del Fuego in a simple Royal Navy aircraft, a Westland Sea King Mark IV, which would then go to the Rio Grande air base and proceed to establish an observation post to collect intelligence from the base's defenses.The mission required the Sea King helicopter to travel a distance close to its operating range, so this would be a one-way mission. Therefore, the mission of the crew consisted of dropping the SAS team in Argentina, towards Chile, and the subsequent elimination of the aircraft with the sinking in deep water.May 18, 1982 - Royal Navy Sea King HAS2 XZ573 826 Naval Air Squadron - Wikipedia abandoned two miles from HMS Hermes in the South Atlantic due to radio altimeter failure when hovering, crew rescued and helicopter sunk by naval fire due to the proximity of the enemy.Incident Westland Sea King HAS5 XZ573, 18 May 1982The helicopter, with a crew of three men and eight men from the SAS team, took off from the Invincible at 0015 hours on May 18.Do to an unexpected encounter with a drilling rig in an offshore gas field, he was forced to swerve, adding an additional twenty minutes to the journey. As it was approaching the Argentine coast, after four hours the fog forced it to fly with visibility less than a mile.As they approached twelve miles to the landing of the SAS-planned discharge, visibility was reduced to such an extent that the pilot was forced to land.The pilot and the SAS patrol commander did not agree on their exact position, while the SAS commander was also certain that they had been seen by an Argentine patrol.He asked to be dropped on the border of Argentina and Chile.The pilots were forced to fly with the instruments through instrumental weather conditions in an alleged neutral Chile.The SAS team was dropped off on the south shore of "Useless Bay" where they were going to try to move to their observation post on foot.The failure of the insert operationThe helicopter crew flew to a beach near Punta Arenas where they landed. One of the two pilots and the "Air Crewman" landed on the beach. They made holes in the helicopter to allow it to sink once it was abandoned. The other pilot attempted to pose him above the water, but was unable to sink him. He flew back to the beach in order to add more holes to it, but was blinded in his night vision goggles by a blinking "Low Fuel" light, and he crashed onto the beach.The crew set fire to the helicopter and detonated explosive charges before leaving the scene. They moved over several nights to an observation point near Punta Arenas, where they attempted to make contact with the British from the Embassy. They were discovered earlier, captured by Carabinieri as they moved through the city, and were turned over to the British authorities.According to Argentine sources, on the night of May 17/18, the helicopter was located by the radar of the destroyer ARA Bouchard, which sent a message to its twin ARA Piedrabuena patrolling in the north, and then to the Rio Grande air base.Members of the 24th Infantry Regiment claimed in 2007 that they shook the helicopter with small arms fire amid thick fog south of Río Gallegos.The SAS reconnaissance mission was eventually aborted.Argentina safe from continental penetration:AbandonmentLack of intelligence at the scene meant that British forces had no clear idea of ​​how Rio Grande was defended, nor any guarantee that the Super Etendard or Exocet missiles were even there when the operation was carried out. The British forces also had no information on how the base was organized, and they did not know where the Exocet missiles were kept or even where the pilots' barracks were.At that time, Operation Mikado, which was already seen by experienced members of the SAS that was a suicide mission, is considered to be impossible to achieve, due to the loss of the wow factor and due to British Intelligence discovering that Argentines They had much better radar coverage than initially anticipated.Consequently, the airborne assault plan drew considerable hostility from some members of the SAS, which ultimately led a sergeant to tender his resignation shortly before the team was scheduled to travel to Ascension. The squadron commander is relieved and replaced by the second-in-command regiment.Ultimately, the Thatcher government recognized that there was a high probability that the operation would be a failure.Contrary to rumors, no plan was devised to infiltrate the SAS in Argentina with the help of the Royal Navy submarine "HMS Onyx" (According to the British version).The Argentine Navy claims that D-29 Bouchard had bombarded a submarine and a number of inflatable boats during a patrol two miles from Río Grande, at position 53 ° 43'38.04 "S 67 ° 42'0" W, in the night of May 16, 1982.*Video:Configuration-Subtitles-Automatically Translate-EnglishEvaluationAfter the war, ARA commanders admitted that they were expecting some form of landing from the SAS forces, but that they would never expect a Hercules to appear on the ground directly in their tracks, despite the fact that British forces have been followed, including in Chilean territory in case of attack.The failure of the operation would have been a disaster, and would be used as propaganda against the British forces, and on the contrary, there would be an increase in morale for Argentina.On the other hand, in the political sphere, Ireland and Italy are opposed to the economic blockade against Argentina that day and which was agreed to last a week.They got lost 05 x Sea King.The ZA311 crashed into the sea in bad weather at night and sank. Crewman Kevin Casey (26) died. Rescued pilot..Kevin CaseyAccident Westland Sea King HC4 ZA311, 23 Apr 1982The ZA132 was lost on May 12 in an accident while hovering alongside the Hermes aircraft carrier. The helicopter lost power, fell into the sea and while floating a wave hit it causing the propellers to hit the water and destroy the machine.Incident Westland Sea King HAS5 ZA132, 12 May 1982The ZA290 lost on the night of May 18 in the vicinity of Punta Arenas, Chile. The helicopter brought special forces from the SAS to carry out offensive operations in conjunction with special forces from the same group, against Argentine airplanes and pilots, but had a malfunction and made an emergency landing, to be later set on fire and hidden together with the Chilean government.The ZA294 was lost in a night accident on May 19 as it prepared to land fully loaded with personnel (30 people), on the assault ship HMS Intrepid. She apparently suffered a loss of power from ingesting a bird in an engine, causing the machine to fall inverted into the sea. 21 people died.Accident Westland Sea King HC4 ZA294, 19 May 1982Air Service Special RegimentEach man's parent unit (which they belonged to before joining the SAS) is displayed after their rank.Most of the SAS casualties occurred on May 19, 1982, when a helicopter circling while waiting to land on a Royal Navy ship fell into the sea.The bodies of some SAS men were returned to Great Britain to be buried in the SAS section of St Martin's Cemetery in Hereford, near a former SAS base.Others were buried in the sea.Raymond Ernest Armstrong, Cpl (or Trooper), Royal Green Jackets. Died 19 May 1982, aged 29.John Leslie Arthy, Sgt, Welsh Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 27. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Malcolm Atkinson, WO1, Coldstream Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 36. Of Barnsley, Yorkshire.William John Begley, Cpl, Royal Corps of Transport. Died 19 May 1982, aged 32. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Paul Alan Bunker, Sgt (or Cpl), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Died 19 May 1982, aged 28. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Robert Allan Burns, Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 22. Of Dundee.Philip Preston Currass QGM, Sgt, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 19 May 1982, aged 34.Sidney Albert Ivor Davidson, Sgt, Parachute Regt. Died 19 May 1982, aged 34. His widow Elizabeth lived in Chepstow.Lawrence Gallagher BEM, Warrant Officer. Died 19 May 1982, aged 37.Gavin John Hamilton MC, Captain, Green Howards. Died 15 June 1982, aged 29.William Clark Hatton QGM BEM, Sgt, Parachute Regiment. Died 19 May 1982, aged 31. Of Motherwell, near Glasgow.William John Hughes, Sgt. Died 19 May 1982, aged 34. Of Pwllheli. Also commemorated on Pwllheli war memorial.Philip Jones, Sgt, Welsh Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 28. Of Hoddlesden, Lancashire.Paul Neville Lightfoot, L Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 21. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Michael Vincent McHugh, Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 22. Of Stockport, near Manchester.John Newton, Cpl, Royal Electrical and Mech Engineers. Died 19 May 1982, aged 22. Of Darlington.Patrick O’Connor, Staff Sgt, Irish Guards. Died 19 May 1982, aged 33.Stephen John Godfrey Sykes, Cpl, Royal Signals. Died 19 May 1982, aged 25. Buried at Hereford (St Martin's) Churchyard.Edward Thomas Walpole, Cpl, Royal Green Jackets. Died 19 May 1982, aged 36. Of north London.Falklands National Monument, CardiffThe XZ573 was lost in an accident on May 18, when it was hovering at night alongside the Hermes aircraft carrier. Apparently the altimeters were incorrectly configured and the pilot descended too low, landing, making it impossible to rescue the machine, which later served to adjust the naval guns, with Royal Navy firing at the helicopter.Incident Westland Sea King HAS5 XZ573, 18 May 1982What Andy Legg statedAlthough there were several rumors and news about it, and different British newspapers had spoken about it, an official word had never been heard of England's attempt to invade Argentina, seeking to destroy part of an arsenal in the province of Tierra del Fuego. Now, the team leader spoke about it.Andy Legg, captain of the British Special Air Service (SAS), revealed the details of the so-called 'Plum Duff' operation and his thoughts on it. “I don't think it would be very sensible to invade Argentina but we moved forward and did what they ordered us to do. It was different from any other task I had done before, "he said.According to him, the objective of the mission was to reach the Argentine military base in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, and destroy three Exocet missiles that Argentina had at that time. One of that style had been the cause of the sinking of the Destroyer HMS 'Sheffield', and the media reflected that, with another similar attack, "Great Britain could have lost the war."Legg was angry and sorry for this task and told all the details of the failure of it. As detailed, his unit had to travel 26 miles to the base, gather intelligence information and face the attack. However, the helicopter in which they moved on May 15, 1982, would have been detected by Argentine radars, so they could not land.The second point where they began their task by land was 40 miles from the objective and in Chilean territory, which began to make the task difficult. Then he remarked that the mission was not carried out due to lack of food, logistics and bad weather, which played against the British, who were rescued and transferred from Santiago de Chile."I was not blamed (for the failure of the mission) but inside me I felt bad because our colleagues had died in the South Atlantic and nothing happened to us," said the military man, who recently decided to sell his medals from the Falklands War and the Tierra del Fuego map that he used for the mission because of his anger.Fighting in Argentine territoryFifteen Argentine conscripts died in exchange of fire with British special forces during the Falklands War, says a book on the conflict written by a former member of the elite forces and that is sponsored by Prince Andrés.The book "Special Forces Pilot, flight memory in the Falklands war" was written by the helicopter pilot Colonel Richard Hutchines, and according to his own words these actions have been kept secret by both governments (Argentine and British) , but "several former conscripts" contacted him, "desperate to tell me about their experiences."“The conscripts affirm that their experience of war against the British enemy took place on the Argentine mainland in Patagonia, where some 3,000 conscripts operated alongside regular forces in the protection of airports, fuel depots at the Rio Grande and Rio air bases. Gallegos, to protect them from sabotage operations by British special forces ”, according to Colonel Hutchings.These conscripts allege that they clashed with SAS and SBS forces (*) in Argentine territory and "complain that their war service has never been recognized because the presence of British special forces on Argentine soil has always been denied."The Argentine losses resulting from these combats total fifteen. However, "national security reasons prevent me from making any further disclosures at this point," said the British colonel.The controversy is not new since in truth the original launch of his book dates from 2009, but a new publication, about the aborted operation of those forces to destroy airplanes and especially the fearsome Argentine Exocet missiles in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, and that culminated in the self-destruction of the helicopter and refuge in Chile for its members, has brought it back to life.Operation 'Plum Duff', which is described in the book 'Exocet Falklands', apparently had Colonel Hutchines among one of the Sea King helicopter pilots whose mission was to lead special forces to the base in Rio Grande.Not only did the mission not have the appropriate and up-to-date maps, but on the navigation route they crossed a well-lit and defended Argentine oil platform, which, added to the terrible weather conditions, forced them to fly to Chile, destroy the aircraft. and later surrender to the Chilean police.Operation 'Plum Duff' was kept top secret for more than 20 years but eventually leaked and Colonel Hutchines took advantage in the latest edition of his book (taking advantage of the release of 'Exocet Falklands') to add some more details about the situation in Argentina when the war."I have copies of official Argentine documents, including reports on incidents, and I have verified these with other reports, including fighting between Argentine troops and British special forces in various places."“The Argentine military losses from these incidents total 15 deaths. National security considerations prevent me from making any further disclosures at this point. " Hutchines did not provide details on British losses.Lists of dead and missing in actionMalvinas - Former Combatants - List of dead and missing in actionIn the foreword to the book by Prince Andrew, a former Sea King pilot states: “I was personally very proud to be on call, as a watch officer for 820 Squadron aboard HMS Invincible, to assist the crew of the Sea King on his one-way trip to Argentina ”.Report British SAS commandos captured(0)LONDON -- A seven-man British commando team was captured near the Argentine military base at Rio Gallegos over a month ago while on a reconnaissance and sabotage mission, The Sunday Times reported.ADVERTISEMENTThe newspaper, quoting senior U.S. intelligence officials in Washington, said the Special Air Services team was apparently using American-made mobile radar units to keep track of Super Etendards and Skyhawks flying from the mainland to strike the British task force off the Falkland Islands.The SAS is an elite group of British army volunteers who are trained as a fast-moving ruthless strike force that can adapt to any crisis from terrorist attacks to guerrilla wars to hijackings.The American sources said the seven-man team was part of a much larger SAS contingent sent for reconnaissance and sabotage, and there was 'some evidence' they had destroyed aircraft and fuel dumps.The men -- three officers and four enlisted men -- are being held in conditions so secret not even the International Red Cross had been told, the U.S. officials said. Argentina has confirmed holding only one British prisoner -- a Harrier pilot.The Times said Britain's decision to hold onto approximately 1,000 senior Argentine troops captured in the Falklands might be designed to win the release of the seven SAS men.An SAS team ended the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 by blasting free the staff and killing three gunmen.In their latest exploit, the SAS commandos apparently reached Argentina via Chile where they landed aboard task force helicopters. The Times said a Sea King helicopter that crashed near the Chilean port of Puenta Arenas around May 20 was part of the operation. The three-man crew was sent home to Britain.The Ministry of Defense said Sunday it had no information of any such operation, but a spokesman added, 'We never at any time discuss operations of our special services.'The motto of the secretive SAS is 'Who dares -- wins.' Their badge is a winged dagger to symbolize their swift, silent strikes. Each man is put through punishing mental and physical testing before acceptance, then trained as a frogman, mountaineer, medic, skiier, linguist and parachutist. Their average age is 26.Since the force's formation in 1942 in North Africa, secret SAS operations have included resisting communist infiltration of Persian Gulf oilfields, in the jungles of Borneo and in the deserts of Oman.In 1972, SAS men parachuted aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in mid-Atlantic after a telephone warning that the ship would be blown up if ransom of $250,000 was not paid.Report British SAS commandos captured