Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
Sharkey Ward
бер. 2022 р. · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · Озвучення: Roger Davis
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The controversial first-hand account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies
Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might well have lost the Falklands War.
His dramatic first-hand story of the air war in the South Atlantic is also an extraordinary, outspoken account of inter-Service rivalries, bureaucratic interference, and dangerous ignorance of the realities of air combat among many senior commanders.
As Sharkey Ward reveals, the 801 pilots were fighting not just the enemy, exhaustion, and the hostile weather, but also the prejudice and ignorance of their own side.
Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might well have lost the Falklands War.
His dramatic first-hand story of the air war in the South Atlantic is also an extraordinary, outspoken account of inter-Service rivalries, bureaucratic interference, and dangerous ignorance of the realities of air combat among many senior commanders.
As Sharkey Ward reveals, the 801 pilots were fighting not just the enemy, exhaustion, and the hostile weather, but also the prejudice and ignorance of their own side.
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After graduating from Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Commander Nigel David 'Sharkey' Ward served with 892 Naval Air Squadron before working as a nuclear planning officer at NATO Allied Forces Northern Europe. During the Falklands War he commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, with whom he flew over sixty missions and was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross for Gallantry. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1989 and published his memoirs of his service in the Falklands (Sea Harrier Over the Falklands) in 1992.
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