<sod>On 1 May, ''The Sun'' claimed to have '[[sponsor (commercial)|sponsored]]' a British missile. Under the headline "Stick This Up Your Junta: A Sun missile for Galtieri’s gauchos",<ref>''The Sun'', 1 May 1982, cited in Greenslade ''Press Gang'', p.444</ref> the newspaper published a [[photograph]] of a missile, (actually a [[UGM-27 Polaris|Polaris missile]] stock shot from the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]]) which had a large ''Sun'' logo printed on its side with the caption "Here It Comes, Senors..." underneath.<ref name="Greenslade2002"/><ref name="Chippindale138">Chippindale & Horrie, p.138</ref> The paper explained that it was 'sponsoring' the missile by contributing to the eventual victory party on ''[[HMS Invincible (R05)|HMS Invincible]]'' when the war ended. In copy written by [[Wendy Henry]], the paper said that the missile would shortly be used against Argentinian forces. Despite this, it was not well received by the troops and copies of ''The Sun'' were soon burnt.<ref name="Chippindale138"/> Tony Snow, ''The Sun'' journalist on ''HMS Invincible'' who had 'signed' the missile, reported a few days later that it had hit an Argentinian target.<ref name="Greenslade2002"/><ref name="Chippindale138"/><eod>
<sod>On 1 May, ''The Sun'' claimed to have "[[sponsor (commercial)|sponsored]]" a British missile. Under the headline "Stick This Up Your Junta: A Sun missile for Galtieri’s gauchos",<ref>''The Sun'', 1 May 1982, cited in Greenslade ''Press Gang'', p.444</ref> the newspaper published a [[photograph]] of a missile (actually a [[UGM-27 Polaris|Polaris missile]] stock shot from the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]]) which had a large ''Sun'' logo printed on its side with the caption "Here It Comes, Senors..." underneath.<ref name="Greenslade2002"/><ref name="Chippindale138">Chippindale & Horrie, p.138</ref> The paper explained that it was "sponsoring" the missile by contributing to the eventual victory party on {{HMS|Invincible|R05|6}} when the war ended. In copy written by [[Wendy Henry]], the paper said that the missile would shortly be used against Argentinian forces. Despite this, it was not well received by the troops and copies of ''The Sun'' were soon burnt.<ref name="Chippindale138"/> Tony Snow, ''The Sun'' journalist on ''Invincible'' who had "signed" the missile, reported a few days later that it had hit an Argentinian target.<ref name="Greenslade2002"/><ref name="Chippindale138"/><eod>