`` Cardiff '' , on the lookout Patrolling for aircraft flying supplies to the Argentine forces occupying Control the Falkland Islands , had misidentified Check the helicopter as an enemy C-130 Hercules .

Pebble Island is one of the smaller Falkland Islands , lying north of West Falkland .

Pebble Island is one of the smaller Falkland Islands , lying north of West Falkland .

Together with the UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher , who had resisted Defending the invasion by Argentina of the Falkland Islands a decade earlier , American President George H. W. Bush deployed Arranging US forces into Saudi Arabia , and urged Convincing other countries to send Sending their own forces to the scene .