Falklands Gunner: A Day-By-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War Martin TomPevná vazba
Falklands Gunner: A Day-By-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War Martin TomPevná vazba The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the…
Specifikacia Falklands Gunner: A Day-By-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War Martin TomPevná vazba
Falklands Gunner: A Day-By-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War Martin TomPevná vazba
The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces' successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. With its six 105mm Light Guns making the journey on the MV Europic Ferry, the Battery sailed south on the MV Norland with 2 PARA, joining 3 Commando Brigade for the landings.The five gun batteries of the Royal Artillery, totaling thirty light field guns, fired a tremendous number of shells on the Argentine forces. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict.Second Lieutenant Tom Martin was a Command Post Officer with 29 (Corunna) Field Battery RA which deployed to the South Atlantic in 1982 as part of the Task Force dispatched to retake the Falklands.
For its part, 29 (Corunna) Field Battery fired the first Fire Mission of the