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Yeah. Hello, welcome back to the final episode in our Falklands podcast. I'm Patrick Bishop. And today Saul David and I will look back at the immediate aftermath of the war following the surrender of the Argentine garrison in Port Stanley on the 14th of June.

Inevitably, I suppose, the end proved to be a bit of an anti-climax.

Yes, exactly so, because after all the intensity of the fighting of the previous 24 days of the land campaign,

the victors now had to get down to what was in effect the pretty boring administrative tasks of arranging for the shipping of the defeated

Argentinians back home. More than 11,000 prisoners were herded on two ships for repatriating.

Troops were then set to work clearing up minefields, which the defenders had scattered all over the place and restoring water and electricity to Port Stanley. Now, Patrick, you were there. What was the atmosphere like immediately in the days after the surrender? Well, it was a kind of flatness about the whole thing. You can imagine throughout the campaign we've been fantasising about how we were going to celebrate

when we liberated Port Stanley.

But in the end,

it came down to sitting in the saloon bar

of the Upland goose and having a few beers.

There was a kind of strange show,

huge relief, of course,

but with relief, you know, as the

adrenaline ebbs, a kind of slight sense of melancholy creeps in. There was some, some surreal

moments because most of the guys, we had the kind of capacity once in a while to get on the satellite

communications, and so actually maybe talk to get on the satellite communications.

And so actually maybe talk to someone back in the office or something like that.

But most of the military guys didn't have that luxury.

So there was a kind of huge queue of people lining up to make use of the satellite telephones,

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