Falklands40: Battle of Goose Green
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Getting on With It
We were very much aware that we were probarly going to be expected. And my mind h ontis spurs at that moment the day before at the o group, and he absolutely instilled in us a complete faith that we would succeed. I think it's worth mentioning h jones here, because when he gave his orders, b b c had announced we were coming,. We managed to get some reconnaissance of the ground ahead and so on, where the enemy positions were, et cetera. It looked pretty dire. My map ended up full of red marking enemy positions. You'd see there wasn't a great deal of scope for a manoeuvre and achieving supplies in that way
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