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Hello and welcome to Battleground. I'm Saul David and today Patrick Bishop and I will be talking about the most crucial, nail-biting and gut-wrenching 24 hours of the whole Falklands campaign.

That was of course the night of 20 to 21 May when the task force closed on the islands, dropped anchor offshore and at long last the Marines and parrars climbed into their

landing craft and prepared to set foot on dry land. Now this of course is the moment we've been

waiting for since the beginning of the podcast and And Patrick, you were on Canberra.

What was the mood like as you approached the Falkland Islands? Well, the first thing I'd say is that

the weather really kind of matches the mood as we go south. You leave ascension where it's very sunny

and warm, tropical, and head into the dark and stormy waters of the South Atlantic. They're very dramatic.

You get these huge mountainous seas, grey, scudding clouds, driving rain, squalls. And then

the bird life, there are these huge albatrosses skimming the tops of the waves.

And even the big ships like the Canberra were wallowing around in these mountainous seas.

Now on board Canberra, as we get closer to the exclusion zone,

all the windows have been blacked out.

So these are the big kind of public rooms, which have huge windows, and they're all painted over. So there's literally a kind of public rooms which have huge windows and they're all painted over.

So there's literally a kind of darkening all over the place.

I remember people beginning to think about their own mortality.

And every Sunday there'll be services for the various denominations on board.

And attendance is picked up quite dramatically.

I remember going to the mass in the ship cinema with my fellow Catholics.

And the Padre there gave us all a blanket absolution for our sins, which we kind of,

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