The contract advisors needed to help operate the USS Iwo Jima would have likely been retired sailors with knowledge of the ship’s systems, said current Combat Fleets editor, Eric Wertheim on June 26. Naval Institute on June 26. “We also identified ‘contract advisors’ who would be on board to help the British with some of the systems.” “We decided that the USS Iwo Jima would be the ship that would be the easiest for the British to operate and would make for a smooth transfer,” Lyons told the U.S. Though primarily a helicopter carrier, at least one Iwo Jima-class ship was qualified to operate the American version of the Sea Harrier, according to the 1982 edition of Combat Fleets of the World. Second Fleet at the time of the conflict, helped develop the plan to supply the Royal Navy with Iwo Jima if the Hermes or Invincible were lost. Navy Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, commander of the U.S. “As in most of the requests from the Brits at the time, it was an informal request on a ‘what if’ basis, Navy to Navy,” Lehman said. The contingency plan to provide a replacement carrier was developed at the Royal Navy’s request. Each carrier fielded five vertical takeoff Sea Harriers armed with American Sidewinder missiles - all major components of the U.K.’s air war in the Falklands.
Reagan approved the request without hesitation and his instructions to Weinberger had been simple, “Give Maggie everything she needs to get on with it,” Lehman said in the speech.Īt the time, the Royal Navy had deployed HMS Invincible and HMS Hermes to the Falklands. “We would ‘leave the State Department, except for Haig, out of it.’” Naval Institute he made in Portsmouth, U.K. “We agreed that would tell the President that we planned to handle all these requests routinely without going outside existing Navy channels,” Lehman said in a speech provided to the U.S. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with the loan of the amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima, he said. Lehman and then Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger agreed to support U.K. Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, told the U.S.
during the 1982 Falklands War, President Ronald Reagan’s administration had developed plans to loan a ship to the Royal Navy if it lost one of its aircraft carriers in the war, former U.S. While publicly claiming neutrality between Argentina and the U.K. President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the White House in 1981 The Reagan Library Archives
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