S4E1: The Battle of Goose Green | Secret History

Duration: 50'19''

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The story of the first land battle in the Falkland's War in which British soldiers defeated an Argentine force and at which the Parachute Regiment's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel H. Jones, was killed charging an Argentine trench and awarded the Victoria Cross.

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