Database contains 260 records - 19 November, 2007

On the 5th April 1982, a large British task force set out on a 7500 mile journey to liberate a group of tiny windswept islands in the South Atlantic. On 1st May began the biggest naval action to take place since the Second World War - nearly 900 men from both sides lost their lives, 260 of them serving with British Forces or Islanders.

Sources and references used to build this database:

• Operation Corporate The Story of the Falklands War, 1982 - Martin Middlebrook ISBN 0-670-80223-9 [Main source]
• The Times Newspaper Digital Archive (available through Public Libraries)
• The London Gazette
• Britains Small Wars - Falklands
• The Falklands Conflict
• Palace Barrack Gardens
• South Atlantic Medal Association

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