Goose Green Veteran Interview | The Falklands War: Forty Years on with Peter Kennedy | British Army
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2022
- Peter Kennedy was a 25-year-old Lieutenant when suddenly thrust into leading the final attack of the first decisive land battle of the Falklands War.
Now, forty years on, he will mark the anniversary by recounting the life-or-death drama of the battle to retake the islands in a talk at Army Foundation College Harrogate.
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great to see a father daughter clip. you are both a credit to the uniform. you must be so proud of each other. respect.
Major Kennedy, you are absolutely correct, there was major support for the Task Force and great sadness over the loss of life. Well done Sir and Ma'am, a good interview. Your father must be proud.
Tremendous interview Major Kennedy. Your bravery, tenacity and leadership is tremendous. Your daughter is very proud of what you did 40 years ago. Well done Sir!
Great 1st hand account. I remember The Falklands War like it was yesterday. I was still in school at the time but remember clearly the feelings I had for the islanders and the task force, and my relief when it was done. I was proud then and I'm proud still. I salute them all. 🇬🇧
Falklands. Jeeez still on about that shitty little Island Where is it
Twice my grandfather was behind the line, chatting with mates, a shell hit, he went straight up in the air, came down, fine. Everyone else dead... RIP TFG MC and Bar. Brave men, not heroes. Respect.
Told with great modesty......A true officer and gentleman.
Major Chris Keeble was the real hero of Goose Green. ...... A soldier who used his mind, was inspired, and saved lives ...... A well deserved DSO.
Hahaha ý
P.
@@johnbrackenclara You think that a man capable of persuading a superior force to surrender is funny?
"StandFastForTruth"???
Says the coward who LIES about her real name!
@@zen4men I didn't understand the laughter either. That was a classic piece of British genius by Chris Keeble, and undoubtedly saved loads of lives. Massively deserved DSO.
@@Mitsu8998 I met a man who claimed to have been Colonel H's bodyguard, and there when H was killed. ...... He certainly looked and sounded the part, and his description of the ground matched that I later saw on a documentary.
I had always felt that H's VC was questionable. ...... This man's testimony validated my instinct. ...... H lost patience, and rushed forward, putting lives in danger, losing people, including himself. ...... He stopped in open ground to change the magaine on his SMG, and that was that.
H may have had courage, and may have been a good officer, but H had lost contact with his function as CO of a fighting battalion.
When H went off to Ascencion Island, he left Keeble in command of final training in the UK, and onboard on the way down, so Keeble was well placed to take over on H's death.
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Had the Argentines really believed in their claimed right to the Falkland Islands, and been willing to fight to the last for it, the garrison at Goose Green, with superior numbers, arms, and in well-sited dug-in positions, would have made 2 Para's task far harder than it actually was.
Keeble had that instinct that draws on something higher, that inspired him to seek a better way than merely bludgeoning his way in.
And it worked!
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And I guess that 2 Para deserved a VC after such a hard grind.
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The unit that REALLY impressed me in the Falklands was the Royal Marines.
Without 3 CDO Brigade, without the Marines knowledge of Dartmoor ( similar to Falklands ), and annual training in the Artic ( makes Falklands look almost easy in comparison ), and without Major Southby-Tailyour's knowledge of the waters through sailing around the Falklands due to his command of the Marines there ( NP 8901 ), invasion would have been far, far more difficult a task.
That government was seriously thinking of axing the Marines says much about the stupidity of government.
Thanks for the interview Sir. You were my Company Commander on P-Company in May '89.
I had the very great privilege to attend one of Peter's leadership courses and sat transfixed when he used his account of part of the assault on Goose Green as a course opener. A true leader and an inspiration.
This was absolutely brilliant,thanks to all involved. No thanks aimed at the treacherous BBC!
BBC have blood on their hands. What a stupid thing to do. Corporate manslaughter should have been applied.
I hate the BBC!
They have always been Marxist wooftahs.
Why?
@@dougyohooglefrogtownrovers9017 I think these people feel so strongly about the BBC because it was a BBC broadcast that announced 2 Para's presence at Camilla Creek House to the world.
The ABC in Australia had form like that in WW2 on at least one occasion. E.g; Japanese ships were spotted at Carola Haven, PNG, and somehow the ABC got hold of this and told the world. The Japanese had gone ashore the previous day and placed the plantation manager and a US missionary on parole. After the broadcast they went back, shot the plantation manager on the suspicion that he was a Coast Watcher (which he wasn't), and took the missionary prisoner (who eventually died when the POW "Maru" he was on was torpedoed).
It just goes to show that someone preparing a news story in the safety of a journalist's office somewhere can have deleterious effects thousands of km away.
An absolute top effort by these legends.... I'm a veteran of campaigns across the world but the shift these guys put in was immense...As usual under equipped with everything against them they got the job done!
My brother was in 2 Para mortars during the Falkland conflict
Really appreciate this story. I was born in 1980 and although the Falklands war happened it's almost lost to history and rarely told. Thankyou for your service and your story
My one and only bath in the war was also in Fitzroy, cold but lovely ❤️🙏
My grandad served in the Falklands on HMS Plymouth
Great interview! Argie here, by a fire similar to that one.... thanks for sharing your story.
Respect to you Sir.
I feel proud watching this. How fantastic dad and daughter
So nice to see two generations that have been through RMAS, it's a place that I will never forget.
It was our time, but some of us were stuck at Brize, biting at the bit.
Respect to all the boys. Airborne!
Also remembering those brave souls from 3 Para. The little known battle for Mt Longdon - the bloodiest battle of the war.
From an aussie ex-serviceman, much respect to you and your daughter. Great interview. Thank you both for your service.
Great piece. Well done to you both
Thank you sir! We are forever grateful for your service in action and your lost fellows.
Sheep always are…
Fantastic. I really appreciate watching this. Thank you Both !
great interview, congratulations to both.
Brilliant
I remember it from the news here in the U.K.
thank you for your service
Brilliant. What a proud daughter. What a proud dad........
Really lovely story I love it. the Falklands war was a complete masterpiece for the British army
What, including the loss of sitting duck shipping? Masterpiece my eye.
That’s not how you spell embarrassing unqualified catastrophic disaster. How many ships were lost? Do you know why?
How many lamentably poor decisions were made? The UK forces were all highly trained, and many had deployed in war zones. The majority of the Argentinian forces were poorly trained and inexperienced conscripts, therefore no serious competition - on paper. Their pilots were outstanding. Quite frankly, they are the ones who deserve the most respect.
Are you also aware that more Falklands veterans have committed suicide than were KIA?
In ‘82 I was just back from 4 years in Rhodesia. Watching the daily losses was frankly embarrassing as it was ridiculous.
Do some basic research and stop pretending the Falklands fiasco was anything other than an intentionally manufactured conflict to save Thatcher’s administration, which turned into a disaster.
@@G58 So let me get this right...you would have sent your shittiest troops 8,000 miles to retake a well entrenched well equipped defending force - " because it's just not cricket" To send your best? Also, you don't go to war expecting zero losses especially when using assets designed for a completely different scenario.
@@fungiformenow To sail such a distance at short notice, it logistically had never been done before. The yanks said it couldn’t be done. Either way the boys did a professional job and have my complete respect.
@@UnashamedlyGodSquad el 80 por ciento o más. Las tropas argentinas mejor entrenadas y ambientadas al clima Malvinense quedaron en Patagonia para contener cualquier acción proveniente de Chile.
Great content. I'd read his biography; a clear, balanced view. Well done.
You guys are doing great
Sir, you were our OC on our All Arms PCoy with CSM Warner (05 May 1989). Thanks for sharing your Goose Green experience. Proud to have earned the Maroon Beret.
In that kind of war, the professional soldiers always win.
The Paras did an exceptional job.
The argentinians where 17 years old and had never held a gun. It was never going to go any other way
Great little chat. A more in-depth chat with Peter would be interesting, pondering on some what-ifs. What if Peter and one of his higher ranking platoon commanders would have had a disagreement? Would the captain have been allowed to pull rank on him? Peter was senior in position, but junior in rank. What if 'H' would have allowed C-coy to provide fire-support to A-coy with their LMGs from 800 metres? Might that have unlocked A-coy's predicament earlier?
Jones was a hindrance during the battle
My senior year in high-school in America was the Falklands War - I joined the Navy in 1986. I JUST watched a documentary of the Falklands War from the mid-80s and was thinking "Dang, that Corporal is my age, the Captain is 5-10 years my senior"... and saw your video in my queue .
GIGGLES when the young Captain there inquired how Dad communicated home to Mom during the conflict... Hand written LETTERS. I still remember my amazement over the decades - when we got "email" aboard the ships in the mid 1990s (I did Desert Shield/Storm by snail mail), and eventually satellite phone service (wished my Dad a Happy 60th Birthday from the Straits of Hormuz in 1997). I remember some kids complaining, in Iraq (I was back in 2006 as an IA to the Army), that they hadn't been able to call home in a WEEK... oh PLEASE
Thank you for the video Major and Captain (rather cute).
Very good interview, good speaker. watched one earlier from RM. Point of view, he was excellent as well, really showed his love for his men.
cool interview
Thank you
Absolutely TOP ⭐♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
It's such a shame Dr Rick Jolly didn't make it to the 40th.
Awesome! Peter Kennedy! England.
Are grenades still worn in this position i.e. front facing, shoulder high, when making an attack ?
This video was so interesting! Could you please do more interviews with veterans? I would love to learn more about the experiences of the soldiers who took part in the Falklands War.
Finally a vid to commemorate our heroes
Now that was really interesting. What gave me pause for thought is that, at the beginning (and again near the end), when the medals were shown, there were two GSMs displayed next to SA with Rose etc, and both seemed to have an NI clasp. Or am I mistaken?
MsG
Yes, that is correct.
Very good indeed
Great ! Un buen hombre y buen soldado! Que Dios los proteja a todos y a sus familias!
She is lucky to get into Artillery as a woman these days. A woman I know well was in the TA and an officer cadet whilst studying, in early 1980s. She could be Artillery trained as a cadet but was not able to join the Army in any such role. She chose not to join the Womans Royal Army Corps, WRAC, to do just admin type work. There are many roles open to women now.
All roles in the British military are open to male and female applicants.
I read Royal Navy had more ships etc during Falklands war than currently... how sad if this is really true...
I joined in 2008 crazy the difference in numbers i think im right in thinking 250,000 people have joined between this guys regt no. And mine
Hey, this guy was court-martialed for a fatal live-fire training incident in Kenya. Look it up.
I've always taken my hat off to our armed forces and still do 👍👏👏 however our government need to reward them more for what they do. A lot of people in the UK only think of them and appreciate them for what they do when we are in the sh??
brave and smart man
@ 11.45 what’s the mag on that SLR? Seems very long.
LMG may
One brave brave man
@peter Kennedy , you remember a soldier by the name of guy Thomas , he would of served with you , and was injured in the falklands .
good soldiers come from good training and good officers, respect to all for the sacrifices you all gave
Great video. Hero. 🇬🇧
One wonders how an "Only company strength" intelligence assessment mutated into "Over a 1000" defenders - what happened to "Measure three times and cut once" ? One further muses that what wa reported in the IA was what was expected in the minds of the observers rather than the actualite ?
And no report of the Napalm store hazard, euh ?
And, no response to the distraction ? Were the clever friends at the right location ?
Makes the case for accees to Recce drones and satellite observation intelligence . . at all levels .
Not the infamous Menu D compo rations eh..? 😉
I am actually very surprised that he admits to going for a bath /meal with the CoyCmdr and CSM? What about the lads??
Thank you sir for your service and bravery alongside all who were there. Best of the best.
It seems that an incident in Kenya, in which he had no responsibility, somehow kept Major Kennedy from further promotion.
Heroes
Airborne Brotherhood ready for anything
What about the Royal Marines ?
This is his story. There are similar interviews with former Royal Marines, Royal Navy sailors and others units that went down. 👍🏻
hahah was my platoon commander when i was a recruit 1981
👍👍
Good boss man him I would imagine. Para reg officers are grafters not stuck up but switched on
Hero’s everyone of them ❤️🇬🇧🫡
You can always rely on the BBC get it wrong.
Oh the joy of the nylon "T Bags' waterproofs, that just made you sweat and still leaked. 95kit was the most Gucci kit ever, the 1960s DMP was horrendous. its low was the Ho Chi Minh warm gear. Never came out the locker, as you'd never get it back A4(GL) again.
We wasn't allowed 95s untill we made kimgs Squad in the RM.
Someone should of lined the media reporters up so that ever Para/Commando etc could give them a "Slap" when they got home for being such freaking Prats.
That’s not where the story came from.
Bren Mag
A good video.. could have done without the crappy looney tunes music. Well done 2 Para and all who fought.
I feel for those young Toms with no meat on their bones and no warm bath to thaw the bones. If it's available though, you take it.
BFPO 666 on the Norland, who had that idea?🤣
Respect QS
BB€ siding with the enemy. What a shock.
this guy sound like he's still in his 20s.
briliant we might have to get ready for war again no surrender
The enemy will have to be woke,and non binary
Quite a man and quite a story. I wonder though, what the men thought when they found out that their seniors had bagged a bath and hot meal?
AATW!
Good thing they didn't have the L85A1 then, it would have been a disaster in the firefights. UK should just adopt the FN SCAR H.
Don't know every detail but the forces seemed small... like 5;000 Argentinas 35.000 British.. could be wrong...but it was hardly the Vietnam war...but respect upmost to all that fault and gave there lives....was it worth it?? In my mind to those who lost love ones...NO..BUT MANY BANKERS SAND POLITICIANS MADE BUNDLES AND STILL ARE ON BOTH SIDES
You are wrong. Totally and absolutely wrong. Well done on the consistency though.
Then Lieutenant Peter Kennedy 2IC took overall command of C (Patrol) Company when his CO was wounded and led one of the final attacks on Goose Green.
What?
Don't forget the tobasco sauce Peter.
Y este señor tiene en su casa la bandera mas linda del mundo???
Just in time for dinner lolololollolol and can i bring a third person lololollo
Great interview. And let’s be honest. She’s marriage material
Mock Turtle Soup
Pretty Captain
Shame you didn’t get the rest of your men a bath and a decent meal, need I say any more.
The argies didn’t even have food, one guy lost 24KG during the way
Such a shame the parachute regiment disgraced itself in 1972 by murdering 14 British citizens in Derry. Maybe this channel could interview some members of 1 Para about the bloody fight they had that day. Would be very interesting to hear their justification for murdering 14 unarmed civil rights protesters.
Please help Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Mate,we are never going into Ukraine. Not if we don’t want get nuked
And have more people die in a war that shouldn’t be fought ??
This is a video about the falklands
not the time or place!
@@ronniewilmott4706 Why not??
@@Karlsvensson777 because this is a video on the Falklands.
The opposing force numbers are misleading.
2 PARA assaulted with 3x Infantry Companies and a Patrols Company. They faced a Regiment minus.
The 12th Regiment was split up. B Company and a platoon from A Company were on Mount Kent.
C Company were dug in to the South and took no part as did B Company when it was flown in before the surrender. The actual opposition was
A Company minus a platoon,
1 platoon, A/8th Regiment,
Command Company minus and 2x platoons from C/25th Regiment.
That makes 9x Infantry platoon and 2x Patrols platoon against 5x Infantry platoons and elements of the Command Company.
The majority of the prisoners were air force, navy, coast guard and combat support troops that took no part.