The Falklands War Almost Had The World's First Modern Aircraft Carrier Battle

Key point: A war neither country wanted. On the afternoon of May 1, 1982, crewmen on the deck of the Argentine carrier Veinticinco de Mayo (“May 25”) scrambled to load six A-4Q Skyhawk attack planes with four Mark 82 bombs each. The subsonic jets were to be the tip of the spear of Argentine Navy Task […]