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Hello and welcome to the Battleground podcast. I'm Saul David, and today Patrick Bishop and I will be talking about the chain of events that led to the tragic loss of life among the Welsh

guards on the Sagalahad at Fitzroy on the 8th of June 1982, the bombing of the landing craft

Foxtrot 4, and the revenge meted out by two C. Harrier pilots, David Mogg Morgan and Dave

Smith, who shot down three of the four attacking Argentinian skyhawks. Just to put you in the picture,

three Commando Brigade, who landed way back on

the 21st of May, have now pushed out from the beachhead and are established on top of Mount Kent

and on the approaches to the Ring of Mountains that protect the capital, Port Stanley.

However, they are having to stay put, freezing cold, soaked to the skin and often going hungry, while they

wait for Five Brigade to get into position to join them for the final assault.

Was Five Brigade's presence really required for the final show? Well, that's a question that

we've debated already and no doubt will go on being debated wherever and whenever two veterans

are gathered together.

But it was now a done deal.

And the operations massively overloaded logistics,

they now had to take account of the needs of fire brigade,

as well of those of the spearhead force.

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