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Battle of Darwin and Goose Green (view source)
Revision as of 21:55, August 8, 2022
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However, British accounts clearly show that Sergeant Evans was already mortally wounded but alive before his Gazelle helicopter crashed into the sea. And Evans was not hit while struggling in the icy cold waters. The co-pilot, Sergeant Edgard Candlish, was also not shot and was able to swim to safety after cutting Evan’s free from the wreckage and dragging the pilot halfway to the shoreline.<ref>‘Flying Marines: A History of Royal Marines Aviation’ (available online)</ref>
However, British accounts clearly show that Sergeant Evans was already mortally wounded but alive before his Gazelle helicopter crashed into the sea. And Evans was not hit while struggling in the icy cold waters. The co-pilot, Sergeant Edgard Candlish, was also not shot and was able to swim to safety after cutting Evan’s free from the wreckage and dragging the pilot halfway to the shoreline.<ref>‘Flying Marines: A History of Royal Marines Aviation’ (available online)</ref>
In 1992, the widow of Sergeant Evans called for a war crime investigation of his death but the case foundered due to evidence showing his fatal injury having been caused while still flying his helicopter, rather than after the crash as mistakenly reported at the time.<ref>''"Sergeant Andy Evans from Landrake in Cornwall, had been married to his wife Julie for 12 years. They had two little children, Samantha and Mark. Ten years after the war, his widow called for an investigation of his death but the case foundered due, it appears to his fatal injury having been caused before his crash, rather than after as inferred by his co-pilot's statement."''
The Falklands War: Then and Now, Gordon Ramsey, pg, 194, After The Battle, 2009</ref>
==San Carlos==
==San Carlos==