Smoke billows from the Type 42 destroyer HMS A Sheffield as fire rages through the warship after she was hit by an Argentinian missile May 4, 1982: HMS Sheffield was destroyed by Argentina 31 years ...

The British destroyer HMS Sheffield was sent to help in retaking the Falklands from the Argentines in 1982, but during its mission it was exposed to more than submarine attacks. The sinking of the ...

The officer in charge of a failed SAS mission into Argentina during the Falklands War has spoken of his anguish over the aborted raid. Captain Andy Legg led a team of eight men in Operation Plum Duff, ...

In April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, which were the subject of a long-running dispute with Britain. The British sent a force to retake the islands, which went ashore on May 21. The ...

The defeat of Argentina's Falkland Islands invaders marked both the summit and the greatest trauma of Margaret Thatcher's tempestuous premiership. She recounted how, as a woman alone, she had to force ...