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During Operation Corporate, the Royal Marines won 46 decorations, including 2 DSOs, a DFC, a DSC, 6 MCs and 11 MMs, and 83 mentions in dispatches. Casualties totalled 27 killed and wounded; 45 Cdo lost 12 killed.

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Harriers aboard HMS Hermes
42 CDO parading through Bickleigh barracks
Harrier hover
Sea Harrier recovering from combat air patrol (CAP) mission during the Falklands campaign, armed with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and 30mm guns.
One of HMS Fearless's LCVP lands stores and men at San Carlos Falklands Photo: PO Pete Holdgate
Harrier pilot
HMS FEARLESS's beach recovery vehicle affords Royal marines of 3 Cdo Brigade a dry landing at San Carlos Bay. Falklands
loading sidewinder missiles
42 Cdo RM, Lima company digging defence trenches over looking Port San Carlos
loading sidewinder missiles
Sgt Josh Shiels 42 Cdo RM using captured 0.5 Browning on Mount Hariet. Photo Phot Roger Ryan 42 CDO
Harrier pilot
A young Royal Marine from 40 Cdo finds a couple of moments between air raids to write home and re-assure loved ones everything is OK Photo: PO Pete Holdgate
loading sidewinder missiles
A Royal Marine section emplaning on Wessex Five for transit to Mount Kent
M Coy 42 CDO RM on patrol in Grytviken
M Coy 42 CDO RM on patrol in Grytviken, South Georgia Photo PO Phot Jim Fletcher
South Georgia Flags
The Union Flag and White Ensign are raised over South Georgia
Major Mike Norman and his men from the Falkland Islands detachment on their way back to the dependancy with the flag taken from Government House which they intended to replace
Major Mike Norman and his men from the Falkland Islands detachment on their way back to the dependancy with the flag taken from Government House which they intended to replace
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