Falkland Islands War, 1982

Sea Harrier Over the Falklands

Sharkey Ward 2000

Author : Sharkey Ward

Publisher : Phoenix

Release : 2000

ISBN-13 : 9780304355426

Page : 377 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 426 voters

Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might well have lost the Falklands War. HIs dramatic first-hand story of the air war in the South Atlantic is also an extraordinary, outspoken account of inter-Service rivalries, bureaucratic interference, and dangerous ignorance of the realities of air combat among many senior commanders. As Sharkey Ward reveals, the 801 pilots were fighting not just the enemy, exhaustion, and the hostile weather, but also the prejudice and ignorance of their own side.

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