The Secret Disastrous SAS Attempt To Invade Argentina Revealed: In The Falklands War, Crack Troops Go On A Suicidal Mission To Storm Galtieri's Exocet Missile Base. This Is Their Story - Told For The First Time -- Daily Mail
* SAS troop were ordered to attack an Argentina missile base
* Operation Plum Duff's mission was to enter an air base called Rio Grande
* A troop of eight struggled for over a week on the Argentine plains
* Given inadequate equipment, little information and useless maps
It was dark, freezing cold and 0800 GMT. Or, more significantly, ‘five o’clock, local, in the bloody morning’. Behind their captain, the SAS troopers were dragging their equipment on to the sodden Patagonian grass. The penultimate leg of 6 Troop’s long approach to battle had ended. From here it was up to them.
As the Sea King helicopter’s distinctive clatter faded towards the west-north-west, troop commander Captain Andrew Lawrence allowed himself a few moments to reflect. There was a sinking feeling in his stomach.
The task was to reach Rio Grande, a closely defended air base some 70 miles away. Once there, they were to attack a detachment of Argentina’s Super Etendarde fighter planes and their deadly load of Exocet missiles.
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My Comment: I heard about this mission a few years ago .... but I never knew what the details were until now.
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