7. The Battle of San Carlos Water

Battleground

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Argentinian Air Force mobilise and attack the landing British Task Force at San Carlos Water. Hear thrilling eye witness accounts from Mark Hankin, a 17-year-old Royal Marine tasked with machine gunning down the Argentinian jets, and Sargeant Dave Watkins, who was attempting get troops to shore in the cumbersome landing craft. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.1	Hello and welcome to the Battleground podcast. I'm Saul David and today Patrick Bishop and I
1:15.0	will be talking about arguably the most dramatic moment of the Falklands campaign. When, with the bulk of
1:20.5	three Commando Brigades safely ashore on East Falkland, Argentinian planes attack the warships
1:26.2	and merchant support vessels in Falkton Sound and San Carlos Water
1:30.5	during the morning of 21 May 1982. We ended the last episode with the arrival of the first
1:36.6	Argentinian plane, a ground attack Piccarra, at around 8am. Patrick, you were on the bridge of the
1:42.5	troop ship, Camberra, known as the Great White
1:44.8	Whale. Tell us what happened next. Well, this is my view from the bridge. The bridge had these
1:49.4	projecting wings, bridge wings that stuck out actually beyond the superstructure of the ship. So you
1:55.0	had a fantastic view there. And when I got back, I wrote about what I saw in my book,
2:00.5	The Winter War, which I wrote with John Witherow, who came down with Fire Brigade.
2:04.4	Anyway, this is what I said at the time.
2:06.4	East Falkland looked delightfully, green and soft.
2:09.3	It did not, however, looked nearly as safe as we had imagined it to be from studying the maps.
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