12428/5  Brigadier Julian Thompson
Then the landing sequence started to get interrupted, or not interrupted, delayed by attacks by the Argentinean Air Force, which went on all day. They appeared about two hours after first light i.e. at about eight, nine o'clock in the morning local time. The intensity of the raids continued throughout the day, now as I said they actually spent the whole of that day attacking warships. But at the same time they were still coming over the areas where we were carrying out landings. So helicopters when they saw fighters in the air rightly took evasive action, or hid in folds in the ground. So the whole process was slowed up so that when you had air raid warning red, ships would wave the helicopters away because they didn't want to have helicopters on their decks if they were going to be attacked and helicopters would sit in folds in the ground all the way around the anchorage. So if you can imagine that slowed down the process and fortunately as I say they didn't hit any of the landing ships so that by last light I had my brigade ashore. The batteries were ashore, the units were ashore and what was required to be lifted in then was ammunition, supplies and so forth.