Falklands - Task Force Sails

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Falklands - Task Force Sails

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April 5th, 1982 - HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible begin their long voyage to recapture the Falklands. Many folk took a day of work (or school!) to see them off. My brother and I went to the Ferry Gardens in Gosport, but that was packed. We managed to sneak into a nearby block of flats and get a spot on their raised patio. My uncle was aboard the Hermes, so it was a deeply personal time. My camera was a very old Russian Zenit, so the shots are rather poor, but historic I suppose.

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Thanks for sharing, Paul. How was your uncle by the end of the trip?

On the one hand, I remember it all so very clearly and it doesn't seem all that long ago. I mean, we're only talking about the 80's right? I know the 70's are now history, but the 80's?
That was only a few years... :oops:

Then again, looking at the photos of people and the cars and so on, it really was another world from today.

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He was fine, Bruce, thanks for asking. He doesn't talk much about it though. He was one of the last old-fashioned chippies in the Navy. His action station was in damage control, so he would have been in the thick of it, had Hermes been hit. My family and I got to go to dockside in Pompey Dockyard for their return sometime in July, but I wasn't allowed to take my camera for that...

I've other photos from the periphery of the war to share later.
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MerlinJones wrote:On the one hand, I remember it all so very clearly and it doesn't seem all that long ago. I mean, we're only talking about the 80's right? I know the 70's are now history, but the 80's?
That was only a few years... :oops:
Then again, looking at the photos of people and the cars and so on, it really was another world from today.
Yeah, seems like yesterday..... :shock:

No cellphone cameras in the photo!!!
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