On this day, 46 years ago, on August 27, 1979 (July 5, 1979 in the lunar calendar), British Marshal Mountbatten passed away. British people mourn for combat hero Mountbatten On August 31, 1979, Duke Mountbatten, a combat hero of World War II and the last British governor of India, was killed. Terrorists in Ireland blew up a family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The interim organization of the Irish Republican Army immediately claimed responsibility, saying the murder was an "execution" in furtherance of "this noble struggle to drive British invaders from our motherland." Three days later, Irish police arrested two IRA members and charged them with murdering Mountbatten. Mountbatten was on a family fishing trip near his summer house in northwest Ireland when his 29-foot fishing boat exploded. Two other people were also killed, one of whom was his 14-year-old child. Four other passengers were seriously injured. The Irish Republican Army's killing of Mountbatten may be the boldest act of terrorism in a long period of time. This triggered waves of anger in both the UK and Ireland. Mountbatten