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Thread #146309   Message #3394639
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
24-Aug-12 - 06:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
Subject: RE: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
2oo!

"and we have it from their Admiral that she was indeed out to get a carrier."
There is no certainty about this; it has been denied as having never been said.

The Independent, 3rd April 2012
Rear-Admiral Walter Allara, in command of the Belgrano battlegroup, said: "The entire South Atlantic was an operational theatre for both sides. We, as professionals, felt it was just too bad that we lost the Belgrano." Admiral Enrique Molina Pico, head of the Argentinian Navy in the 1990s, said the cruiser was part of an operation that posed a real threat to the British task force and that she was holding off from carrying out an attack for purely tactical reasons.