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Hello and welcome to episode four of the Battleground podcast with me Saul David and me Patrick Bishop.

Last week as part of our Falklands War special told in real time, we looked at the failure of diplomacy and the recapture of South Georgia.

This week we move our gaze back to the Falkland Islands proper and consider the seismic

events of early May 1982 as an RAF Vulcan bomber carried out the first raid on Port Stanley

Airfield, British Special Forces landed on East Falkland, and in rapid succession, the Argentinian

cruiser Belgrano and the Royal Navy's destroyer HMS

Sheffield were sunk by torpedoes and an exocet missile respectively.

Okay, but first, let's just remind ourselves of some of the key events of the previous week or two.

So on Sunday, the 18th of April, 1982, the Task Force Battle Group,

including the aircraft carriers, Hermes and Invincible, and 11 escorting ships, left

Ascension Island, that's the halfway point in the Atlantic, for the south. Five days later,

Britain issued a general warning to Argentina that any approach

on the part of their warships, submarines or aircraft, which might threaten British forces in the

South Atlantic, would be dealt with accordingly. On 25th of April, British Special Forces recaptured

the island of South Georgia, 800 miles to the east of the Falkland Islands.

And a day later, the British government established a total exclusion zone, the T-E-Z.

That's a 200 nautical mile radius area around the Falkland Islands, from which any

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