To: moonshot925
Let’s see if this one survives. I wonder what the problem was.
5 posted on
06/28/2012 6:13:19 PM PDT by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
There were two major problems at the time, Reagan had public stated that the U.S. would not take sides in the disagreement, but did support the U.K. privately in the matter and second the feeling among the U.K. public was that the U.K. itself needed to handle the problem since the Falklands belong to them.
7 posted on
06/28/2012 6:21:50 PM PDT by
Trueblackman
(I would rather lose on Conservative principles than vote for a RINO candidate.)
To: naturalman1975
The Argentine Navy in 1982 mostly consisted of ex US Navy ships.
- USS Phoenix (CL-46) - Transferred to Argentina in 1951
- USS Catfish (SS-339) - Transferred to Argentina in 1971
- USS Chivo (SS-341) - Transferred to Argentina in 1971
- USS Borie (DD-704) Transferred to Argentina in 1972
- USS Hank (DD-702) - Transferred to Argentina in 1972
- USS Perkins (DD-877) - Transferred to Argentina in 1973
- USS Collett (DD-730) - Transferred to Argentina in 1974
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