USS Iwo Jima would have been loaned to the Royal Navy if the British had lost one of their capital ships during the Falklands War

During the 1982 Falklands War (Malvinas for the Argentine people) the U.S. publicly claimed neutrality. But in secret, President Ronald Reagan’s administration had developed plans to loan a ship to the Royal Navy if the British ally had lost one of its carriers (the high priority targets of the Argentine Air Force and Navy A-4 [...]Image may be NSFW.
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