Operation Certain Death

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The day before 846 squadron left the UK, they took delivery of seven sets of NGV's which worked with a system called ANVIS.

During that short time, a war had been fought and won over 8,000 miles from home.' State of the art technologyFlying like that was not conducive with the sort of missions we had to do inserting special forces patrols into the Falkland Islands but the night vision goggles enabled us to fly right down to ground level at high speed and enabled us to navigate very accurately to the required drop off point." Nocturnal creature The three of us managed to get past this base and we were about to walk around the corner of this quiet side street when a car pulled up alongside us," said Richard. Over the coming days and weeks, there was plenty of time to reflect on events of recent weeks and months. On cue 'Flyco' delivered the navigation data as practised many times during our training sorties, but this time it was for real. I fixed our position in TANS and all three aircraft launched into the darkness. Operation Sutton was underway.'

Speaking to Dodge Woodall on the Eventful Lives podcast, Phil said the plan to get them out - officially called Operation Barras - was deemed so deadly as "the only real option was to fly a helicopter straight into the middle of the village at first light".Great book which covers all aspects of the story from the captives the soldiers sent in to get them and the top brass planning the operation. Out of the car stepped a captain of the Chilean carabineros - who came up to us in spanish and said, 'Are you the three British airmen?' It was just like the moment of out of the TV programme, 'Allo 'Allo. The bomb-maker has bigger plans in place, designed for maximum destruction. Plans that are personal to Riley - and his family. And he has no qualms about how many innocent bystanders are caught in the firestorm. A powerful docu-novel, which conveys the danger of the operation and the courage of those who went in to successfully rescue their colleagues. Sunderland Echo

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It lasted 74 days and resulted in the deaths of 255 British and 655 Argentine servicemen and three Falklanders. Operation Certain Death You haven’t seen these people in action. I have. Believe me, if British forces have to come in and rescue us, this place is finished. There won’t be a building left standing.’ ‘Then that, Major, will be a very good thing.’