Reunited: Falklands veteran Neil Wilkinson came face-to-face with Argentinian pilot Mariano Velasco who he thought he had killed in the war
Pilot Who Shot Down Argentinian Fighter Jet In Falklands War Comes Face To Face With The Man He Thought He Had Killed… And Now They’re Best Of Friends -- Daily Mail
For 25 years, Neil Wilkinson, a Royal Navy Gunner from Leeds, lived with the guilt of shooting down an Argentinian pilot during the Falklands War.
Day after day, images of the Douglas A4 Skyhawk jet bursting into a plume of smoke and plunging into the Falklands hills, played on his troubled mind.
When the war began in April 1982, Neil was a 22-year-old able seaman living in Portsmouth.
'I really just joined the navy to see the world and to get paid for it,' Neil, now 52, says, 'I never envisaged going to war. I’d only been in the navy three years.'
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My Comment: Neil Wilkinson is lucky .... his nightmare of taking another human life is not true.
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