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4 May The Type 42 Destroyer, HMS
Sheffield, is badly damaged by an
Exocet missile, killing 20
crewmembers. It sinks on 10 May.
21 May Royal Marines and paratroopers
from the British Task Force land at
San Carlos Bay on the Falkland Islands
and raise the Union Jack.
23 May HMS Antelope of the Royal Navy
explodes.
28 May British troops reach Darwin,
Falkland Islands.
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