How did the British supply their forces at sea that far away?

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‘The UKLF Aspects of Mounting the Falkland Island Operation (Operation Corporate),’ The Royal Corps of Transport Review, March 1983, pp. 11-2.
Vaughan-Arbuckle, Lieutenant Colonel I. M., ‘Logistics in the Falklands:  Some Personal Reflections,’ British Army Review, April 1985, pp. 45-51.
Wellings, Lieutenant Colonel M. J., ‘The Role of the Defence Operational Movements Staff in Operation Corporate,’ The Royal Corps of Transport Review, March 1983, pp. 8-11.
Wettern, Desmond,  ‘Dockyards & Logistics,’ Navy International, 87, August 1982, pp. 1255-8.
Whittaker, Captain R. N.,  ‘Combat Logistics:  The South Atlantic,’ Air Force Journal of Logistics, Fall 1984, pp. 2-6.

Official and Unpublished Documents
Army Department Operational and Logistic Lessons Learned Op Corporate, 26 April 1983.
Army Department Report on Operational and Logistics Lessons from Operation Corporate, 15 September 1982.
Army Management Services Report No 392, Outloading and Deployment by Sea of Stockpiles in Support of OOA Operations.
HQ LFFI, Record of Proceedings, Annex T (Logistics), 18 October 1982.
Hellberg, Lieutenant Colonel I. J., An Experience with the Royal Marines:  Falklands Campaign April-July 1982, 24 September 1982.
Hutchinson, Commander W. K., Main Points from Falklands Study Day, 18 October 1982.
Logistics Concept and Plan for the Support of the Falkland Islands’ Garrison, HQ CINC Fleet, 14 July 1982
MacDonald, Major R., Post Operational Engineers, 16 July 1982.
Morgan, Lieutenant Colonel D., Letter to Patrick Bishop, The Observer, 4 November 1982.
Lessons Learnt from Op Corporate:  Land Service Ammunition, 2 July 1982.
Notes and Comments on the Medical Aspects of Op Corporate by a Regimental Medical Officer, 1/7 Gurkha Rifles.
Op Corporate Lessons Learned, COD Donnington, 28 July 1982.
Op Corporate Post Operational Medical Report by 16 Field Ambulance 1982.
Op Corporate:  Report on Army Graves Registration Work and Repatriation of Bodies (Aug/Nov 82), HQ Director of Army Pioneers and Labour, 10 January 1983.
Operation Corporate Command and Control of Blowpipe Section attached to the RAF Landing Ships Logistic Air Defence.
Operation Corporate Debrief 82 on Equipment and Tactical Lessons by Director of Infantry, 16 November 1982.
Operation Corporate Medical Report, HQ Land Forces Falkland Islands, 1 November 1982.
Operation Corporate Royal Engineer Lessons, April 1983.
Operation Corporate Royal Engineers Post-Operation Report, 8 September 1982.
Operation Corporate 1/7 Gurkha Rifles Debrief Points, 19 July 1982.
Operation Corporate—10 Field Workshop REME, 27 August 82 and 26 October 1982.
Ordnance Report on Operation Corporate, HQ Commando Forces Royal Marines (Undated).
Maclean, Major G. K. Maclean, Operation Corporate 29 Transport and Movement Regiment RCT Historical Report.
Papers on the Falklands War and Containerization, ITM (Offshore) LTD, 2 September 1985.
Prisoners of War in the Falklands Campaign, 29 July 2982.
Review of the General Engineering Capability Following Operation Corporate, D Engineer Services, 10 August 1982.
Royal Engineers Postal and Courier Services 1982, HQ 2 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers.
Royal Marines Sitreps:  Operation Corporate—Falkland Islands Operations, 16 April 1982, 27 April 1982, 12 May 1982.
Second Battalion The Parachute Regiment History, The Falkland Islands Campaign.
Second Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Post Operational Report (Undated).
South Atlantic Conflict:  Lessons Learned Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations.  Report of the Falkland Island Study Group to Secretary of the Navy.  8 March 1983.
Wellings, Lieutenant Colonel, M. J., Role of the Defence Operational Movement Staff in Operation Corporate.
3 Para in the Falklands (Undated).
3 Para Report, Annex K thru M (Logistics, Medical Staffing, Casualty Evacuation), 22 October 1982.
5 Infantry Brigade Report on Operation Corporate 1982 (Undated).

Presentations
Hammet, Major D. G., Lecture Notes, Port Operation in Port Stanley After Hostilities in 1982 (Undated).
Hellberg, Lieutenant Colonel Ivar, Falklands Logistics Presentation to Staff College, 28 June 1985
Lamb, Major Peter, Speech NEC Logistics Coordination Meeting, 1-2 December 1982, Operation Corporate.
Lamb, Major Peter, Speech RMSC Greenwich, 10 December 1982, Logistics in Amphibious Ops in the Falkland Islands Campaign.
Roberts, Lieutenant Colonel J. D. A., Speech, 16 Field Ambulance (Undated).
Scripts for Briefings on Logistics, DCOS Conference, 1982.
Welch, Lieutenant Colonel A. C. D. Speech, February 1988, Logistics Support During Op Corporate.

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