Nick Vaux: Self - Commander, 42 Commando, Royal Marines

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• Tom Hardy - Narrator : 5 Brigade began their Great Leap Forward. Most of the troops would need to be moved by ship. But without the knowledge of other commanders in the field, Brigadier Wilson decide to fly 2 Para to secure Fitzroy by commandeering the last remaining Chinook helicopter.

  Brigadier Tony Wilson : [archive footage]  We shoved as many soldiers as we could into that Chinook, and we kept cramming them in, and when they didn't fit any longer, we literally booted them into the helicopter and got them in.

  Brigadier Julian Thompson : My brigade recce troop were on some high ground overlooking Fitzroy about 10 miles away. And they saw a Chinook landing in Fitzroy.

  Lieutenant Colonel Nick Vaux : We assumed, because the Argentines had Chinooks, that it must be some kind of raid. And so we started to call down an artillery strike on the helicopter.

  Brigadier Julian Thompson : And the guns were being heaved round from pointing that way to pointing that way.

  Lieutenant Colonel Nick Vaux : The senior gunner realised that it actually might be our own, so at the last minute the strike was called off.

  Brigadier Julian Thompson : We nearly lowered a fire mission regiment onto our own side. Because we weren't kept in the picture as to what the hell was going on.