"Falkands Lite": Channel 5 documentary last night
Discussion
Anyone else watch it? The entire conflict compressed into about 45 minutes of TV.
Good job Channel 4 are covering Black Buck on Sunday: there was not a single mention about it last night. Even the Harriers barely got a mention. Nothing about the Exocet procurement deception, the requesitioning of famous cruise ships for the troops etc. The latter was particularly galling for me because I had an educational school trip to the Holy Land planned that summer aboard the SS Uganda, but General Galtieri ruined that for me! I never did get there.
Anyway the next in the series is about the Slapton Sands D-Day rehearsal fiasco. Fortunately that has been covered in detail on TV before.
Good job Channel 4 are covering Black Buck on Sunday: there was not a single mention about it last night. Even the Harriers barely got a mention. Nothing about the Exocet procurement deception, the requesitioning of famous cruise ships for the troops etc. The latter was particularly galling for me because I had an educational school trip to the Holy Land planned that summer aboard the SS Uganda, but General Galtieri ruined that for me! I never did get there.
Anyway the next in the series is about the Slapton Sands D-Day rehearsal fiasco. Fortunately that has been covered in detail on TV before.
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