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Navy could still liberate Falklands
Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Alan West The Royal Navy could still today launch a similar expedition to liberate the Falkland Islands if invaded as it did in 1982. That is the view of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Alan West, retired head of the Royal Navy and Commander of a frigate, HMS Ardent, bombed and sunk in the 1982 War on the day British forces landed at San Carlos.
Sir Alan, who is to lead the main victory parade this week in London, rejected a suggestion on television that the Royal Navy would be incapable of repeating what he called its tremendous feat of arms in 1982, so far from home. He said that though the Navy may be smaller, it has up to date weapons to combat attacking aircraft. But, he said, the Argentines are now not threatening to invade and the message from the United Kingdom is clearer than in 1982, warning them against any such move. Admiral West was speaking on British television in a programme in which Carol Thatcher said her mother, Baroness Thatcher, and her father had to search for an atlas on the night of the invasion to find out where the Falklands are. Harold Briley, London
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