Tag: Benjamin Rattenbach

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 10:40 UTC

  The Argentine Navy September 1941 “sudden strike” plan to invade and occupy the Falklands

  

  It was 26 September 1941 when an Argentine navy captain presented to the Naval War School a plan to invade, capture and retain the Falkland Islands. Circumstances were different to those nowadays or in 1982, world war and events made Argentina fear the transfer of the Islands to some other country, be it of South or North America and thus she must prepare secretly before they change owner, creating a favorable situation for its interests.

• Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 04:07 UTC

  Falklands: the Argentine military planned invasion during World War II

  

  It was 26 September 1941, Nazi Germany consolidated the siege on Stalingrad, America had yet to suffer Pearl Harbor and declare war on the Axis and Britain was suffocated under the pounding of German bombs and at sea losing tens of thousands of vital shipping.