Re: [OT] Goose Green

Quoting Tomb <tomb@dreammechanics.com>:

> Brian Squared #3 said:
> Not lunch, but I looked it up.  Interesting.	According to the
> (British
> run) 
> websites I've seen, it wasn't the Royal Marines at Goose Green, it was
> the 
> Paras.....
> 
> Tomb:
> Oops. Yes. Royal Marines, Paras.... Gung Ho lads in either case! :) 
> Point was they discovered some of the tactics taught at battle school
> didn't apply so well there. 

Was that the one where Col. H Jones ordered a bayonet charge of a trench
(ISTR 
because the mortar people couldn't keep up) ? I mean, OK it worked we
won, he