War vets accused Clarkson, who once drove through an Indian slum in a Jaguar fitted with a toilet, of goading them over the Falklands. An Argentine politician also claimed that the digits 269 on the number plate of the Lotus Esprit James Maty drove were close to the 255 Britons killed duri...
Barbour jackets did certainly make their way to the South Atlantic, but not in abundant numbers or in the highly customized variety – as these pictures show. Writing inThe Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War,Ian Gardner mentions the waxed cotton jackets: We were, in the main, a...
War also brought the armed services to Grantham in large numbers. There were four RAF bases locally, including the RAF College at Cranwell. * 8 Margaret’s letters to Muriel about dances in the area during the war always mention the hordes of flight lieutenants eager for a dance. Grantham...
After the 1982 Falklands-Malvinas War, the previous and very cooperative relationship between Argentina and the United Kingdom was disrupted. It took several years to reestablish diplomatic relationships, and even more time to institutionalize the diplomatic arrangement known as "sovereignty umbrella," ...