The 1982 Falklands War Hoax

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Fifty men, thirty-two from the Welsh guards, died in the attack on the Segalahad sixteen days ago. Many others were badly burned. This is the first film that has come back, a correspondent Michael Nicholson saw it all. Men even took time off to fish for a change of diet. But then came the attack. The Skyhawks came into attack and were out again with our gunfire chasing them too late. So sudden, so unannounced, we knew nothing until we saw the black smoke billowing out of the landing ship Segalahad. And then the first signs of a fire are brought some Tristum nearby. The attack happened so fast, there wasn't even time to think of taking cover. And as the ships were hit, many men aboard hadn't even time to pull on their anti-burn masks to save themselves from the heat flash as the bombs exploded. The two landing ships Segalahad and Tristum were bombed within two hundred yards of each other as they were unloading supplies of ammunition and of men. They were in a narrow estuary at Fitzroy leading off from Bluff Cove. The men had come to join the rest of their brigade here at Fitzroy only seven miles from Stanley. Segalahad had anchored only a few hours before and the men were waiting for landing craft to come and get them. One hour later and most of the men would have been safely ashore in their trenches. Our air defense missile, which most Argentine pilots respect, had come off the ships in the morning but were still being set up on the hillside overlooking the estuary. Had the Argentine planes come just that one hour later, rapier would have been ready for them. The bombs, Hitzsegalahad, after through the engine room and accommodation sections. I watched from the shore less than four hundred yards away and felt the impact on the ground below me as the hold full of ammunition exploded. Many were brought ashore with dreadful burns. Hey, you're crossing the down, that's the name. Bullets came from their ammunition boxes exploding in the heat, whistling and whirring past us. It's great to have.飛, fishe, full of force. What about this one? I don't know. I don't know. Just cold. I can't get this one. I can't get this one. Still hang out with her. I saw hundreds of men rush forward along the decks across the hold, pulling on their life jackets, pulling on their survival suits. Some, the ships crewmen, just off watch, pulling on their shirts and trousers. Men were trapped on the wrong side of a fire, and not knowing what else to do, they jumped overboard, the flames spreading around them. I saw men swim underwater, and they were all in the same boat. And not knowing what else to do, they jumped overboard, the flames spreading around them. I saw men swim underwater away from the ship to avoid the burning oil. And as they surfaced, I watched other men, men who were safely away forward of the flames, risk their own lives, jumping into the water with life jackets to save those men swimming below them. Inflatable rubber life rafts, bright orange, were held over the side. Some, immediately burst into flames as debris from the explosions hit them. Others landed, but were blown by the wind into the burning oil. Roaps were thrown down the side of the ship, a men clambered down them, and despite the wind, despite the heat of the metal on their feet, despite the movement of the ship swinging them backwards and forwards along the side of the hull, they got down into their life rafts. The strong wind, gusting now, fan the fires, enormous fires, as the fuel tanks exploded. The ship was half-embeloved in black thick smoke now, but the raw navy seaking and west-ex helicopter pilots and their crews ignored the fires, they ignored the explosions and the ammunition erupting around them, and flew their machines into the smoke to lift the cues of men waiting below them. The helicopters waited in turn, steady in the air to move in once the one in front of them had moved away, to winch the men off. I watched one pilot stay his machine slowly and deliberately into the black air and hover, completely blinded and bloaked in the smoke, and then we saw his crewman, winging down a line to pick a man out of the sea. Three times that winchman went down, and three times he brought men up, up into the blackness that covered his helicopter. I saw another helicopter almost touch the water, its rotor blades seemed to be spinning through the flames, to pick up a man in a bright or in survival suit who was clinging to the anchor chain. Lifeboats were launched from the Tristan, the other ship, whose crew seemed to be containing their fire, and these boats under power began taking some of the rubber life craft in tow. Others began drifting, though, taken by the wind sometimes away from the inferno, but then suddenly to water it. Pilots in the helicopters saw this, and immediately four of them took their machines to the rear of the ship by the flames, came down low, and using the down drop of their rotor blades slowly began to push the rubber dingers away. And slowly, yard by yard, each helicopter taking care of one dinghy full of men, they pushed them safely onto the beach. The casualties and survivors, many suffering from shock, many who had heard their own friends screaming in the locked dormitories, unable to get out, but picked up from the beach by soldiers who had run from their trenches to help. The soldiers waited out into the freezing water up to their chests in it to pull men to safety. 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We need another one. Others were helped and carried up the steep slope of the beach to the waiting armoured cars and the light tanks. Some were helped inside. Others were so badly injured, strapped tight to the stretcher that they had to be lifted on top of the tanks and driven to the field hospital. From Fitzroy, after emergency treatment, they were flown by helicopter to the field hospital at St Carlos Water and then onto the hospital ship Uganda. The Chinese crew, the cooks, the laundrymen, the stewards on these royal feed-aux-zary ships were badly burnt, the bomb exploding in their quarters. They are normally the most cautious of all aboard these ships, the first to put on their anti-flash units, their hoods and their gloves. They said, we knew nothing, we heard nothing, there was no warning, just a blast and then we saw men with skin dripping from their heads, from their faces. It was a day of tragedy. 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