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Airborne Forces remember the Falkland Islands conflict at Aldershot

The sacrifices and successes of those who took part in Operation Corporate, the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from the Argentine military forty years ago, were both commemorated and celebrated in the ‘Home of the British Army’, Aldershot.

Tenbury couple Richard and Pamela Jones remember son Craig who died in Falklands war

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Ending the Falklands War 20240604 01:40:00

friday the 11th the push, the final push for stanley has begun. the royal marines, supported by the remaining welsh guards, are closing on stanley. heading into battle at mount harriet, two sisters and the brutal mount longdon. there s no other way to do it. time immemorial, the only way to win ground is by putting boots on the ground. and you have to get eye to eye and, basically, kill each otherjust within feet of each other. it s medieval. it s known since mankind has been on earth. machine guns is sporadic firing, followed by artillery. 0ur ships at sea hms glamorgan, i believe initially was providing naval gunfire support and they were being brought to bear on the argentinian positions on the top of mount longdon, so that there was lots of noise, in some

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Ending the Falklands War 20240604 00:38:00

missing, who was wounded and who we had ashore, so it was quite a. ..a difficult time for us, i would say. it was a dark day for the welsh guards. the regiment suffered more losses than any other in the falklands. but the war was far from won. some of the costliest battles were still to come. friday the 11th the push, the final push for stanley has begun. the royal marines, supported by the remaining welsh guards, are closing on stanley. heading into battle at mount harriet, two sisters and the brutal mount longdon. there s no other way to do it. time immemorial, the only way

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Ending the Falklands War 20240604 00:39:00

to win ground is by putting boots on the ground. and you have to get eye to eye and, basically, kill each otherjust within feet of each other. it s medieval. it s known since mankind has been on earth. machine guns is sporadic firing, followed by artillery. 0ur ships at sea hms glamorgan, i believe initially was providing naval gunfire support and they were being brought to bear on the argentinian positions on the top of mount longdon, so that there was lots of noise, in some cases lots of screaming where people had been injured. it was difficult to know exactly what was happening. fighting on mount longdon raged for 12 hours before argentine forces withdrew to stanley. as we were moving forward, we would normally have stopped

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