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...early winter now. The daytime temperature hovers in the 30s, and at night the frost shades the windows of the few white wooden houses. When the wind doesn't roar, it howls in the rolling hills. Seagulls loop and cry above the harbor. If this were a normal season, there would be the slight scent of peat in the air, and the residents of the settlement would be going about the business of putting the rams out to the ewes. There are late potatoes and winter cabbage in the family vegetable gardens. The sheep dogs would either be working...
...Brooklyn-class cruiser had a distinguished history. As the U.S.S. Phoenix, she survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequently carried then Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the 1943 Casablanca conference. She was sold to Argentina in 1951 for $7.8 million...
...members of Britain's elite Special Boat Squadron, an ultra-secret frogman-commando unit, had slipped quietly ashore on the island. Their mission was to scout Argentine troop emplacements and estimate the size of the opposing force. The scouts reported that the Argentine troops at the South Georgia harbor of Grytviken, the site of an abandoned whaling station, numbered no more than...
...moving toward Grytviken. The British fired at the sub, a diesel-powered craft built in 1944 by the U.S., with machine guns and rockets. They scored at least three hits on the vessel, which began leaking oil and giving off smoke. The stricken Santa Fe limped into Grytviken harbor to beach itself. As about 50 Argentine troops poured off the vessel...
...after the landing, a white flag was hoisted by the Argentine commander at Grytviken, and a short while later the blue and white Argentine flag was hauled down. After securing Grytviken, the British were able to make radio contact with a second garrison of 16 Argentine soldiers at another harbor, Lieth, some 20 miles away. Those troops refused to surrender, making a further mopping-up necessary. In the end the British captured 156 Argentine soldiers and sailors and 38 Argentine civilians in the operation. Only one man was wounded, a Santa Fe crewman whose leg was later amputated...