1945: In Borneo, during an attack by Australian forces on Beaufort, some of the attackers came under heavy Japanese machine-gun fire and were pinned down with casualties. Private Starcevich, a Bren gunner, responded with a lone attack on the two enemy machine-gun positions, eliminating them. Later in the day, the troops again encountered stiff resistance, and Starcevich again attacked two positions alone. He received the Victoria Cross & his citation reads:

Private L Starcevich was a member of 2143rd Australian Infantry Battalion during the capture of Beaufort, North Borneo. During the approach along a thickly wooded spur, the enemy was encountered at a position where movement off the single track leading into the enemy defences was difficult and hazardous. When the leading section cam under fire from two enemy machine gun posts and suffered casualties, Private Starcevich, who was Bren gunner, moved forward and assaulted each post, firing his Bren gun from the hip, killed five enemy and put the remaining occupants of the posts to flight.

These daring efforts enabled the Company to increase the momentum of its attack and so relieve pressure on another Company which was attacking from another direction. The outstanding gallantry of Private Starcevich in carrying out these attacks single handed with complete disregard of his own personal safety resulted in the decisive of the action. (London Gazette: 8th November 1945.)

1942: Two light carriers and two cruisers left from Hokkaido, Japan to begin diversionary raids on the Aleutian Islands as part of the Japanese Midway operation. Meanwhile US Navy submarines sailed to patrol positions from Hawaii to counter the invasion threat

1968: In Vietnam, the Australian Fire Support Base Balmoral was reinforced with Centurion tanks just hours before an attack was mounted by two NVA battalions

1982: The previous evening RFA Tidepool, the Norland, Sir Bedivere and Sir Tristram had been escorted out of Falkland Sound by HMS Plymouth. They were taken in charge by the Ambuscade to be taken out of the TEZ.

25th May was Argentina's National Day and it was believed that major offensives would be likely. The Carrier Battle Group moved closer to the islands allowing the CAPs to spend longer on patrol. One CAP was a search for the 25 de Mayo.

HMS Coventry and Broadsword once again provided the "missile trap" & the Argentine Air Force launched a series of raids throughout the morning.

During one of these raids HMS Coventry and Broadsword were struck by 1,000lb bombs. One of the four bombs released by Captain Carballo's A-4B ricocheted off the sea, up through the side of the ship and then the flight deck, demolishing the nose section of the Brilliant Flight Lynx which was on loan, then finally fell into the sea without exploding. Three bombs were put into Coventry's side, with at least two of the three exploding in the ships machinery spaces.

The gallant fighting end for HMS Coventry came after nearly a month in the Falklands battle area under constant threat. But not before she had accounted for seven fighter-bombers, a troop-carrying helicopter and a patrol craft.

In this final attack two aircraft came in very low and the Coventry was strafed by cannon fire and hit by three bombs. She took a heavy list to port of 50 degrees within five minutes and capsized about 15 minutes later. The abandoning of the ship was orderly and well-disciplined as 275 survivors, including the injured, jumped into the freezing sea and swam to the liferafts.

The carriers were about sixty miles to the north-east of Port Stanley, covering Atlantic Conveyor's passage to San Carlos and providing a CAP over the Coventry rescue operations.

HMS Glamorgan and Ambuscade were screening Atlantic Conveyor. In the mid-afternoon two Super Etendards popped up for a targeting radar sweep - the radar at Port Stanley had been able to give a position for HMS Hermes which was only five miles away from her actual position - the Agave radar picked up three targets, one small and two large and two Exocets were launched. All the warships went through the appropriate drills. One of the Exocets was observed to pass under the Ambuscade's chaff pattern but as the second emerged from the chaff the Atlantic Conveyor appeared in the missiles radar's field of view. Atlantic Conveyor had no way of distracting the Exocet and the missile penetrated the ships vehicle decks. Although the Exocet failed to explode, huge fires broke out and the after section of the ship was filled with acrid smoke.

Shortly before the red alert warning of imminent attached flashed to Atlantic Conveyor's bridge, a Royal Navy team had launched a Wessex helicopter from the bow, These men were cut off from the rest of the ship by the heat and smoke, but were picked off the deck by a Wessex and a Sea King.

Twelve men died, or a missing presumed dead, in the attack, including the ship's master, Capt. Ian North. Three of those lost were Royal Navy personnel, and three were form the RFA, with six from Cunard.

An escort frigate closed bravely on the crippled and burning ship to play water on her steaming sides. Lines were thrown to the liferafts in the water, and the last survivors were picked up about two and a half hours after leaving the Conveyor.