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* [[Ace Pilot]]: A lot of the pilots on both sides, the British pilots on the one hand were the only ones to actually make air-to-air kills; while in the other hand the Argentine pilots managed to get great kills while running on very little fuel and also could only afford to drop their bombs and run. The war was one of the few occasions after [[World War Two]] when anyone even had a chance at earning the title of this trope.
* [[Useful Notes/Argentines With Armored Vehicles|Argentines With Armored Vehicles]]: Quite literally (see the [[Tank Goodness]] entry).
* [[Banana Republic]]: No matter what one's opinion on the sovereignty issue is, Argentina under the [[
* [[Brits With Battleships]] [[Cool Plane|And Jump Jets]]: [[Cool vs. Awesome|As awesome as it sounds.]]
* [[Body Horror]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Weston This guy] was on board HMS ''Sir Galahad'' when it was bombed. [[Made of Iron|He survived with 46% of his body burned]]. Some time after the war, he met and became friends ''with the pilot who bombed him''.
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