Alastair Montgomery

The story of the RAF's 1982 mission to bomb Port Stanley's runway using a single Vulcan aircraft, thus making the island inaccessible to Argentine jets. Told through first-hand accounts, the long-range bombing is recalled, detailing how the crew was forced to employ obsolete skills and scavenge for crucial spare parts in scrapyards to prepare the plane for the task, which was fraught with setbacks and danger from the outset