Falklands War: Unveiling Discrepancies in British Casualties

Posted on Dec 16, 2024 in History

They must have read previous versions of this report of British casualties. This time, we intend to be the last of them, providing new material and confirming the previous one. For the latter work has been devoted to analyzing a whole year every day of a full and correct all kinds of mistakes. An attempt to confirm the facts from both sides, and in cases where there are only Argentine sources, has managed to speak to the protagonists of the facts, his testimony being another source of information, more accurate than books.
Concluding the report are placed various sources. All of them were taken into account, although some publications are frivolous, that when confirming the data, indicating considerable flaw serious review and analysis, whether for the time of its publication with regard to ending the conflict, or as the author’s intention to exaggerate certain actions. We will not give names, who knows the public will know what I mean.

Those who ask the reason why this work has changed and the difference it has with the figures published in 2004, is due to a change in how to proceed with the investigation. The author relied on the Argentine sources, not imagining that known authors in the field of Falklands issue (and many scholars today are still in the field) manipulated and fabricated data distort the reality of the facts. So today has been made to present a work that has leaked much of the British lies and manipulations of data from Argentine historians, some with the aim of not discredit his “great nation” and others for personal gain.
They are almost 26 years of conflict, there is some uncertainty, but slowly be putting together the real facts. Incredible to think that a conflict that lasted only a few months, still has no military action be clarified by both sides.
The big difference with the first version of this work (completed in 2004) is to be removed in cases where no one knows the exact number of casualties, put the probability of deaths estimated for use in conventional wars. Since it was not so accurate and has now chosen to leave the question as it always should have done, if not we who have to launder the casualties, but the British government who must do so in honor of the historical truth .
Data on vessels and aircraft shown here are identical (with some events still fuzzy) to what actually happened, being the most accurate data than those published by the Argentine armed forces and obviously British. As for personnel casualties of war events are still fuzzy, and where it is almost impossible to know the exact number of how many died. Recall that a large percentage of the fallen British (68%) was buried at sea, leaving a few crosses in the Falklands. As the case of ships of the Royal Navy, where there was lots of Chinese crew from Hong Kong. There is only officially recognized six Chinese who died, not the average dropped to coincide with the ships attacked in proportion to declared British casualties.
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After the Falklands War, the British government ordered a military secret until minutes of the day June 14, 2072, ie 90 years. Until then those who disclose or to disclose any data or information found in that document will be tried before court martial.
For now no one to talk about the content of the minutes of secret, but surely one of the main points are the great loss of life that has afflicted the United Kingdom during the Gesta de Malvinas. Not forgetting also the loss of large numbers of moving vehicles, both air and sea.
Official figures are of 255 British fallen and 777 wounded. A striking proportion of injuries and deaths. Conventionally, the number of injured is usually no more than twice. Here’s another deception, the only place in the list of the dead fallen direct, ie not counting those who were wounded first and then died after injuries.
Below is a daily casualties suffered by Great Britain since coming to Georgia on 22 April to 14 June 1982 when the islands are usurped again (in blue detailing the amount of casualties estimated for each day of combat):

  • 22/04: 2 Two Wessex helicopters crashed Tidespring ARF in “Fortuna Glacier, in the South of Georgia by bad weather. At least 2 dead.
  • 23/04: 1 Sea King helicopter falls southwest of Ascension Island.
  • 01/05: 11 A Harrier (Subt. Sanchez Roland missiles) and a Sea Harrier (Cape Home Almada, 20 mm artillery gun) destroyed near Port Stanley. Beyond the witness Argentina, Britain does not recognize the event. At least 9 Chinese sailors die before the attacks of the FAA to the following vessels:
    HMS Arrow, HMS Exeter, HMS Glamorgan HMS Hermes (accident), HMS Alacrity.
  • 04/05: 32 A Sea Harrier shot down Air Force Base Falkland Condor. 800 Sqn shot down by AAA at Goose Green.
    Sinking of HMS Sheffield.
  • 05/05: 1 Marine at Elephant Bay.
  • 06/05:2 Two of the Invincible Sea Harriers crash in bad weather, southeast of East Falkland. According to Argentine sources, the two Sea Harriers were shot down on May 4 in the Condor Base Darwin, failing in its air raid on 3 planes sent, 3 shot down. The British source gives them an accidental death two days later.
  • 12/05: 4 The HMS Glasgow, knocked out. Attack on HMS Brilliant. Falls on a Sea King helicopter after its turbine failures.
  • 17/05: 1 Sea King helicopter was lost at sea due to technical failure. Sea Harrier was lost by mechanical failures (problems in your fuel taking off the “ski jump”). Sqn 809. The driver is slightly injured.
  • 18/05: 22 Sea King helicopter crashed Albatros near Punta Arenas. British versions indicate a bird crossed the engines. Argentine sources claim the demolition.
  • 21/05: Two Gazelles 34 shot down in San Carlos. HMS Ardent is sunk with 22 on board. Are left out of combat: HMS Argonaut, HMS Antrim, HMS Brilliant. It damaged the HMS Broadsword. It destroyed a Lynx. It shot down a Harrier by Blowpipe missile.
  • 22/05: You left out one Harrier combat by attacking the “River Falls” of Coast Guard in the hands of Benitez, who died under fire from another Harrier.
    * According to the testimony of his companions, the Harrier was steaming. May not have been overthrown, and only left out of combat.
  • 23/05: 3 A Sea Harrier aircraft carrier explodes on takeoff Hermes. Its pilot is killed instantly. It sunk the HMS Antelope, number of questionable deaths. Officially there are two.
  • 24/05: 20 were damaged following ships: HMS Sir Lancelot, HMS Sir Galahad, HMS Sir Bedivere, HMS Fearless. For the Fearless, the estimated high number of falls, since at that time had a crew of over 500 men and had about 300 soldiers to disembark in San Carlos.
  • 25/05: 135 are sunken HMS Coventry (bell sank in 15 minutes, experts estimate more than 90 people), containership Atlantic Conveyor (of similar tonnage to a British aircraft carrier, sunk by an Exocet missile). Large numbers of Chinese killed disallowed. Are left out of combat: HMS Broadsword, HMS Sir Lancelot. Are damaged: HMS Alacrity, HMS Yarmouth. A Lynx is lost at Coventry, and two others damaged without causing casualties. Are lost with the Atlantic Conveyor: 6 Wessex, 3 Chinooks and Lynx.
  • 27/05: 11 die seven Marines in San Carlos. A Harrier is shot down over Goose Green, the pilot survives.
  • 28/05: 136 Two Sea Lynx helicopters shot down in Darwin at the sight of Argentine soldiers, exact amount unknown number of casualties and survivors. A Scout felled by a Pucara north of Goose Green. Pilot dies. SAS soldier dies in West Falkland officially recognized, although there were more casualties were not recognized by secret operation failed. Between 27 and on May 29 killed as Argentine soldiers stories about 130 men of 2 Para and the Royal Auxiliary in the battles for Darwin and Goose Green. The British officials acknowledge only 23 and without even counting the wounded who later died.
  • 29/05: British Version: A Sea Harrier from HMS Invincible is lost in night out own fault. The pilot survived.
    Version Argentina: A Sea Harrier was shot down by a Roland Argentine Army Air Base Malvinas. Pilot survives.
  • 30/05: Harrier is shot down. Pilot rescued. It attacked the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, which suffer 1 Exocet and two pumps of 250 kgs. each. It is not known the truth of the attack. Britain denies any possibility, while the Air Force hopes the story of its pilots. It is one of the great mysteries of war and hard to know what really happened. The author reserves to provide material on the subject, beyond the story of the pilots and some other questions raised in specific job. Click here.
  • 01/06: Sea Harrier is shot down by missile MAA Roland. Its pilot was rescued.
  • 06/06:4 A Gazelle is shot down by friendly fire from HMS Cardiff.
  • 08/06: 150 Attack on Fitz Roy. They are destroyed: HMS Sir Galahad (shelled days later by the Royal Navy at a point distant from the coast), HMS Sir Tristram (destroyed not sunk then taken to Britain), barge landing (LCU) Foxtrot (though it was full of soldiers, because carrying logistical supplies). Chinese troops killed dozens on the beach, by the heavy bombing.
    It left enough to disrupt the HMS Avenger. HMS Plymouth was attacked in Pleasant Bay for five aviation bombs Argentina. Harrier is lost by a failure in its engine. It led to Britain and then repaired. The Air Force harasses the enemy bombardment in the trenches until the evening with Canberra’s famous aircraft, causing heavy casualties not officially reported during the following days.
  • 09/06: 18 die in combat by Mt. Dos Hermanas.
  • 10/06: 4 killed four marines by accident.
  • 11/06: 44 die between 11 and 12 June: (3) in Mt. Harriet, (23) from 3 Para in Mt. Longdon, (4) 45 command (1) command 42, (13) of Company B.
  • 12/06: 29 Mt. Two sisters killed four soldiers. It is left out of combat HMS Glamorgan, being attacked for the third time, but this time by an Exocet from Port Stanley. Chinese die not on the official list. The Wessex helicopter of the ship is destroyed. A Sea King was felled by fire from the Ba draft B of GA 3, while trying to deploy a battery on the west slope of Mount Longdon. Casualties is unknown.
  • 13/06: 360 between 13 and 14 June in the afternoon on the battles of Mt. Longdon, Mt. Wiiliams and Wireless Ridge. Officially, only accounted for the British soldiers killed by direct action of combat. The testimonies of Argentine soldiers who estimated the death toll between 350 and 380 British, by the number of bodies they collected the English daylight.
  • 14/06: 5 According to the book “From the Front” of the Commander of BIM 5, Carlos Robacio in Zapper Hill, a Sea King is shot down, two others damaged while descending, being out of service. One of the helicopters exploded killing all crew members on the spot, repelling attack after a PAF. It was the last battle occurred between the two sides, it is unknown how much the enemy casualties, although in the publication include at least 40. Britain denies such action, and is not any loss of any helicopter that day in official records. Combat at Top Malo House, killing at least five men.

TOTAL: 1029 fallen, not counting a possible larger number.


Damaged vessel:
Ships lost (sunk or destroyed): 8
Class Type 42 destroyer Sheffield (D-80) HMS Sheffield
Class Type 42 destroyer Sheffield (D-118) HMS Coventry
Type 21 Amazon class frigate (F-184) HMS Ardent
Type 21 Amazon class frigate (F-170) HMS Antelope
Landing Ship Logistic (L-3005) RFA Sir Galahad
Landing Ship Logistic (L-3505) RFA Sir Tristram
Container Porte Great Atlantic Conveyor
Landing craft Foxtrot 4
Ships knocked out (inactive): 8
Oberon class submarine (S-21) HMS Onyx (operational accident)
Type 21 Amazon class frigate (F-174) HMS Alacrity
Type 21 Amazon class frigate (F-185) HMS Avenger
Type 21 Amazon class frigate (F-173) HMS Arrow
Leander class frigate (F-56) HMS Argonaut
County class light cruiser (D-18) HMS Antrim
County class light cruiser (D-19) HMS Glamorgan
Class Type 42 destroyer Sheffield (D-88) HMS Glasgow
Consideration damaged vessels (nearly inactive): 5
Type 22 Broadsword-class frigate (F-90) HMS Brilliant
Type 22 Broadsword-class frigate (F-88) HMS Broadsword
Type 12 Rothesay class frigate (F-126) HMS Plymouth
Type 21 Amazon class frigate (F-172) HMS Ambuscade
Landing Ship Logistic (L-3029) RFA Sir Lancelot

Ships damaged: 10 *
* Light Aircraft Carrier (R-05) aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and Light (R-12) HMS Hermes (officially unknown if touched by the Air Force Argentina)
Class Type 42 destroyer Sheffield (D-89) HMS Exeter
Amphibious Assault Ship (L-10) HMS Fearless
Ship class Tide Support Assistant (A-76) RFA Tidepool
HMS Sir Bedivere (LSL)
HMS Yarmouth
RFA Norland
Two unidentified vessels (barges, landing)
SHIPS TOTAL VICTIMS: 31
Of the 113 ships and war brought to the islands, were: (27) surface warships of the Royal Navy (6) and nuclear submarines (11) replenishing ships; (16) of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary plus ( 6) logistical support units, (2) Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service, (3) and troop (15) supplying fuel, (19) of cargo / containers, (5) support, (3) tugs.
Of the 27 warships, 11 out of action (between sunken and inactive), 7 broken (of considering or mild). 40% of surface warships, were knocked out. Almost 70% had been touched by aviation in Argentina. Far greater damage would have been if the bombs had been more successful (some did not explode). These data excluding the two aircraft carriers.
Four of the six logistic support units landing were damaged, two destroyed and two damaged. The Air Force and naval aviation Argentina, decimated the British fleet, leaving for June 13 only 3 warships in perfect conditions (own faults and attacks), as expressed by Admiral Woodward, Commander in the Royal Fleet diary:
“We are already at the limit of our ability, with only three ships without major operational defects” Hermes “,” Yarmouth “Exeter”.
From the force of destroyers and frigates, 45% is reduced ability to operate. From the “goalkeeper” (automatic defense systems), the “Sea Wolf” of Andromeda is disabled, all Brilliant systems suffer from a variety of defects, the Broadsword is a system and means of arms, but a drive shaft with practically permanent damage. None of the Type 21 is capable: the Avenger is decomposed, the Arrow is broken and has one of the turbines “Olympus” inutlizada … All of this is falling apart … “

AIRCRAFT LOSSES:
SQUADS Royal Fleet Naval Air:
Sea Harriers lost or out of combat: 8
ROYAL AIR FORCE:
Harriers lost or out of combat: 6
HELICOPTERS:
Helos lost or out of combat: 31
TOTAL COMBAT AIRCRAFT OUT: 45
This does not take into account the missing aircraft accidents or failures outside the war zone, only since joining the fleet to the islands, about 20 of April until the end of the battle, June 14. If such data were counted, the total loss would amount to at least 100 disabled aircraft from the war.

CONCLUSION:
TOTAL DEAD: 1029 (estimated)
TOTAL SHIPS LOST OR DAMAGED: 31
TOTAL AIRCRAFT LOSSES: 45
Britain never stated the actual number of casualties of his troops and the loss of numerous weapons. It just shows the great harm suffered, which far exceeds that Argentina received (taking into account the equipment and military-technological level between both sides).
If the islands are now in British possession is due to the aid that Britain received from the United States and other NATO members. Not to mention most European countries (except Ireland and Italy), who sanctioned economically to Argentina.
In late June neither side could support their forces in the islands and the situation reached the limit. Britain had no air or naval power, and its ground troops not last much longer. Argentina in almost identical situations but with a very bad strategy and procurement.If the war had followed a few days or weeks, Britain had insisted with the idea of using nuclear weapons. Cities such as Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires and Cordoba, were in the spotlight of nuclear submarines that were placed 12 miles off the Argentinean coast until the end of the conflict. So the Pope went first to London. It was a simple visit by what some call the Malvinas as a small war against a regime and that only lasted a few days, without relevance or mysteries within it.
The archipelago was betrayed by the British never and never will. It is a stronghold in the South Atlantic, which lets you control the only natural way to the Pacific Ocean. The islands are like a big aircraft carrier, with great geopolitical and geostrategic value. Get the archipelago, it means also have a base that connects directly to Antarctica, another major point of value.
The British casualties admitted only with names of English and Welsh escoseces but forget much of the Chinese leading Hong Kong and the Gurkhas. Auxiliary vessels of the Royal Navy who were attacked were mostly Chinese crew. However, the official casualty percentage is much lower East. Many things will not close, and that is why Britain owes the world an explanation about what happened in 1982. Another trick is not to recognize those wounded in combat, then died. In most cases, only recognize the fallen who died previously without reported injuries.
Of the 255 known dead, 174 are under water. Taking into account the official data, the number of deaths at sea, by attacks on ships, not more than 100. How could they have thrown bodies into the sea of soldiers killed in land? It is another question that sowing doubts about the veracity of the British figure.
The numbers of aircraft and ships are attacked as realistic as possible with the exception of two aircraft carriers, which still wait for the real version of its protagonists. The staff numbers drop may be even greater than the here exposed. These are data we have following information from reliable sources. Speculation has no place in this sample. There is a publication that has developed this theme with the same precision and care, these being the most reliable data possible, as explained above.

Patrick A. Mendiondo
Director of “The Falklands”
www.malvinense.com.ar
He thanked the forum for the daily “The Falklands”, all those forumers, Argentine and British who have opined on the subject and made her contribution, especiallyJuan Pablo Lerond (JPL).

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