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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 01:24 UTC

Tag: Captain Ernesto Villanueva

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

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

    Stanley, Falklands' capital in the forties and early fifties

    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.