Unidentified photographer 1982, 4 May The Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield on fire after being struck by an AM.39 Exocet missile fired from an Argentine aircraft from a distance of 6 miles.
This photograph was taken during the Falklands Conflict (April - June, 1982).
This photograph was included in the exhibition "All Aboard: Stories of War At Sea", at the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester, UK (17 July 1010 - 24 April 2011).
