With their bayonets on their rifles, these young soldiers, looking grim and determined, moving forward through the thick mist of dawn—it is a sight I shall never forget. A lot of the enemy were killed with those bayonets.

Recalling the sight of his battalion, 3 Para, advancing at dawn on 12 June 1982 after storming some Argentine positions on Mount Longdon. Quoted in Paul Eddy, Magnus Linklater and Peter Gillman, War in the Falklands: The Full Story (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), ch. 21, p. 251