to our left, wireless ridge, 2 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 advancing towards the capital, they ran off it, back into stanley. and that was about midday on the 14th ofjune. and great rejoicing. is there a white flag flying? there is a white flag flying over stanley. bloody marvellous. chuckles. the argentines had surrendered. after 7a days, the war was won. the long journey home was on the horizon. only now was the cost of the conflict becoming clear
and casualties started arriving in larger numbers. by now, because we had already received considerable number of burns and badly injured patients, this was a good routine that was working extremely well. that routine was to be tested as the british army continued to fight some of its hardest battles 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, 2 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
2 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 advancing towards the capital, they ran off it, back into stanley. and that was about midday on the 14th ofjune. and great rejoicing. is there a white flag flying? there is a white flag flying over stanley. bloody marvellous. chuckles the argentines had surrendered. after 7a days, the war was won. the long journey home was on the horizon. only now was the cost of the conflict becoming clear to those in the south
you could see british troops flooding off the features. to our left, wireless ridge, 2 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 advancing towards the capital, they ran off it, back into stanley. and that was about midday on the 14th ofjune. and great rejoicing. is there a white flag flying? there is a white flag flying over stanley. very marvellous. chuckles. the argentines had surrendered. after 7a days, the war was won. the long journey home
a race to the capital. you could see british troops flooding off the features. to our left, wireless ridge, 2 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 advancing towards the capital, they ran off it, back into stanley. and that was about midday on the 14th ofjune. and great rejoicing. is there a white flag flying? there is a white flag flying over stanley. bloody marvellous. chuckles the argentines had surrendered. after 7a days, the war was won.