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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
Ethell & Price, Air war South Atlantic, confirms that the wind was too low on May 1 and May 2 for the 25 de Mayo to launch fully-loaded jets.
And it was early on May 1 when the first Vulcan strike cratered the runway at Pt. Stanley, which meant it could not be used for staging jets. (Which begs the question, why didn't they send engineers to make sure the runway stayed open?)
A professor of mine pointed out that machismo may have had something to do with it, too. A woman wasn't going to fight, right? I'm presuming the junta had never seen the interplay of the House of Commons.
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