How useful, how necessary and how vulnerable are US aircraft carriers is a debate which has been going on for decades now. The conversation went up a notch or two during the 1981 Falkland Islands War ...
they were successfully evacuated via a C-130 Hercules aircraft and Bell 212 and 412 helicopters operated by the Argentine air force. Army personnel are also deployed to the frozen continent’s bases to ...
But the bold Argentine A-4 Skyhawks’ efforts were all for naught: Argentina surrendered to the British the following day.