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The controversial firsthand 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 firsthand story of the air war in the South Atlantic is also an extraordinary outspoken account of interService 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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