On this day in 1982, Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward, who was in Gibraltar in HMS Antrim, given orders under Operation CORPORATE. At 2130 he was told that Argentina had invaded the Falklands. The next day he sailed South In HMS Glamorgan with 10 ships to begin the formation of the Task Force.

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