Falklands: CDS signal to CINCFLEET (1145Z) ("Reference your Operation Order 3/82 - Operation Sutton of 12 May 1982") ["Execute the mission. Although military considerations must be paramount ... political and diplomatic complications will increase with time"] [declassified Oct 2017]

Following the decision by OD(SA) that morning. Sutton was the operation to retake the Falkland Islands, the largest element in Operation Corporate, which covered the entirety of the British war effort.

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