{"id":666,"date":"2007-04-02T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/02\/where-have-you-gone-iron-lady\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T22:23:36","slug":"where-have-you-gone-iron-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Where Have You Gone, Iron Lady?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago, Great Britain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britains-smallwars.com\/Falklands\/NP8901.html\">didn&#8217;t cotton<\/a> to Britons, or British territory, being fodder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalnavy.mod.uk\/server\/show\/nav.5874\">for thugs and terrorists<\/a>.\u00a0 It was 25 years ago today that Argentina invaded the Falklands.\u00a0 A group of 85 British Royal Marines fought back against 1,000 Argentine Marines and Commandos:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the [Argentine Marine] LVTP column passed the old airfield, they came in range of\u00a0[British Royal Marine] Lt. Bill Trollope&#8217;s section; he gave the order to open fire.\u00a0 The LVTPs were each armed with a 12.7mm machine gun that made these amphibious troop carriers a formidable threat to Lt. Trollope and his small section of Marines. Marine Gibbs, armed with a 66mm anti-tank rocket launcher took aim at the lead Argentine APC and opened fire, but missed. An\u00a0 84mm Carl Gustav round fired by Marine Brown found its mark and stopped the lead LVTP dead. The Argentine marines inside the LVTP were unhurt and quickly evacuated the vehicle. The other Argentine LVTPs now spread out and opened up with their 12.7mm machine guns on Trollope&#8217;s section positions. Lt. Trollope ordered a withdrawal back to Government house, happy that at least one of the Argentines APC would not give the Marines any problems in the near future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mod.uk\/para\/25th_anniversary_of_the_falklands_events.htm\">Some Brits remember<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago, Great Britain didn&#8217;t cotton to Britons, or British territory, being fodder for thugs and terrorists.\u00a0 It was 25 years ago today that Argentina invaded the Falklands.\u00a0 A group of 85 British Royal Marines fought back against 1,000 Argentine Marines and Commandos: As the [Argentine Marine] LVTP column passed the old airfield, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}