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Boris Johnson led tributes to the 'incredible daring and bravery' shown by British Army servicemen and women on the Falklands Islands. The 74-day war ended at 9pm local time 40 years ago
ROBERT HARDMAN: Thousands of ex-servicemen and women were here at the National Memorial Arboretum yesterday to ensure those who died in the Falklands War are remembered
Jonathan Mayo's riveting, hour-by-hour account of the final three days of British operations to retake the Falkland Islands, right up until the moment of the Argentine surrender.
Since the second world war. the final push for stanley loomed. the next morning, it was a race to the capital. you could see british troops flooding off the features. to our left, wireless ridge, two para, our sister battalion. to our right, mount tumbledown, scots guard. and it was decided that regimental pride dictated we wanted to be the first into stanley, so helmets came off, red berets came on, head down, bum up and... ..into stanley. as soon as the argies saw how many of us there were — which was basically a battalion on the ground by the time the helicopter had dropped everybody off ...
For three days British soldiers overcame mines, artillery and hand-to-hand combat to claim Mount Longdon – 40 years on, this is their story