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How the RAF drew up plans to attack Argentina over the Falklands in 1982
The Telegraph ^ | 3/26/2012 | Thomas Harding

Posted on 03/27/2012 7:44:13 PM PDT by U-238

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To: RitchieAprile
German WWII helmets on parade during the gentle and enlightened rule of Gen Pinochet and his entourage...

Because Chile would have been so much better off with Allende and his Soviet stooges. /s

21 posted on 03/27/2012 9:07:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: elcid1970

The Russkies do not forget their military past either.


22 posted on 03/27/2012 9:08:18 PM PDT by U-238
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To: U-238

No, they just constantly revise it.


23 posted on 03/27/2012 9:16:03 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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To: edpc

Thats true.


24 posted on 03/27/2012 9:18:51 PM PDT by U-238
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To: dfwgator

That left a mark


25 posted on 03/27/2012 9:32:11 PM PDT by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: wardaddy

Pinochet provided Britain with valuable intelligence to help them fight the Argies.


26 posted on 03/27/2012 9:34:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Army Air Corps

$$$$$$$—nuff said?


27 posted on 03/27/2012 11:35:37 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: RitchieAprile

The armies of both Chile & Argentina wore German helmets & uniforms since WW1. Both have expatriate German communities and following two world wars there was lots of surplus German accoutrements. I’ve seen pix of Chilean soldiers wearing the old spiked helmets and the steel helmets are everywhere in the footage of the Evita Peron funeral.

Fifty years ago, Afghanistan’s army wore German helmets & greatcoats. Go figure.


28 posted on 03/28/2012 5:15:30 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: richardtavor

That was one factor.


29 posted on 03/28/2012 6:15:26 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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