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A decommissioned C 130 Hercules to honor Argentine combatants fallen in the Falklands' war
The trailer transporting the main body frame of the Hercules C130, 30 meters long, seven wide and five tall A decommissioned Hercules C 130 from the Argentine Air Force and which was involved in combat, transport, surveillance, and supply operations during the Falkland Islands war has arrived at Pilar, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, where there is a monument to the fallen during the 1982 conflict.
The Hercules was transported in pieces in a huge truck with trailer and is to be assembled in a six hectares green to the memory of Argentine combatants which besides a small museum, an exact copy of “Stella Mary's” chapel in Stanley and some aircraft that fought and bombed the British Task Force, has a replica of the Argentine Military Memorial at Darwin with all the crosses.
Pilar to the northwest of Buenos Aires City, as all cities, towns and villages in Argentina has a monument, memorial, plaque or symbol dedicated to the Malvinas Feat, and in this case the C130 Hercules was handed over by the nearby Air Force base of Tandil, and more moving since a similar aircraft which went down was piloted by a member of the Pilar community, Commodore Hugo César Meisner.
The semi trailer that transported the main body of the aircraft, 30 meters long, seven wide and five tall arrived after seven days, the time it took to cover the 378 kilometers distance at a minimum speed.
Apparently the C130 will be fully restored and converted into a micro cinema where films and documents from the Malvinas conflict will be displayed. Quite soon Fat Albert will have a companion, a Dassault Mirage fighter bomber according to the Pilar memorial committee.
Veteran Carlos Felizzola said that it took five years to implement the project and receive the Hercules. “But it is a unique case, since so far we had no Air Force representation in our cenotaph, and with the Hercules this is a great achievement. We are also waiting for the iconic Mirage fighter, which will also be a great success”
Staff from the near El Palomar air base are taking time off to help restore de Hercules, while working on the Mirage. The replica of the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin has 649 white crosses with the name of each combatant as Hero of Malvinas.
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Read all commentsArgentine citizen. you are brainwashed, the invasion was illegal, the UN called for Argentinian troops to leave immediately, you quote 2065, the UN have never said the islands are yours, they are not were not and will never be yours, as for more invasions, the fact that there is now a sufficient force based on the islands that will stop any more future attempts to grab them, in time the islands will cease being BOT and become independent ,
Jul 21st, 2022 - 06:37 am +3Argentine citizen, I know you are not very bright as the education system in Argentina is very poor, but there is a difference between a sovereignty dispute and open war.
Jul 21st, 2022 - 05:32 pm +2If you would like to declare open war with the UK, whereby we can follow your rules of each side being allowed to kill each others citizens at will, Argentina would last a matter of hours and be an unfortunate stain on history.
You mistook mercy in 1982 as weakness, once the UK had recovered the islanders home we went home, as opposed to punishing Argentina for its actions so that any mention of “Malvinas” would reign terror in an Argentine heart.
We are ok with that, we are ok that the Argentine peso is 300 to the dollar, we are ok that Peronist after Peronist rapes your country...go for it.
Come near the islands again however, and I doubt we would be as merciful
Lets try once more:
Jul 24th, 2022 - 05:36 pm +21) The is no inheritance from Spain, Spain vacated the islands voluntarily and left them uninhabited.
2) Luis Vernet knew full well that both Argentina and Britain would like to claim the islands but did not fulfill the requirement of having a population on the islands which was (at the time) needed for a valid sovereignty claim. His business venture failed, he left the islands voluntarily, leaving the British Matthew Brisbane in charge of the remaining business assets.
3) Argentina knowing that the Vernet community (as you rightly say the remnants thereof) did not constitute an “Argentine settlement”, sent Esteban Mestevier to claim the islands in 1832. There was actually a ceremony on the islands to do just that. Unfortunately, the crem mutineed and murdered him, and raped his wife.
4) Captain Onslow arrived on HMS Clio in Jan 1833 and instructed ONLY the crew of the Sarandi to leave, agreeing that the Vernet business did not constitute an Argentine settlement. A handful of the community chose the free ride back to Buenos Aires.
No “atrocity” took place
5) Irrespective of the above, the islands now belong to the islanders as spelled out in the UN Charter, where they have the right to self determination.
6) Britain would love to get rid of all its overseas territories, the only ones remaining are too small to be independent, or have belligerent, lying, corrupt neighbours who would look to invade as soon as British defences were dropped.
The reason Argentina doesn't have the Falklands is not Britain, its Argentina...youve had 190 years to convince 3000 people you are a better option.
On the last count you'd convinced 3!!!
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