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Official History of the Falklands Campaign: The Origins of the Falklands War
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572:Roberts, John (16 April 2009).
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634:"The race to regain Thule"
606:Lawrence Freedman (2005).
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865:Black Buck
850:Operations
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1008:Antelope
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