After destroying at least four Argentine aircraft and apparently putting the Port Stanley airfield out of action, the British forces reported just one casualty - Able Seaman Ian Brunell, from Teignmouth, Devon, who received a serious though not critical splinter wound in the chest.
The low-level raid put the airfield out of commission for two hours.
Trafford Park Aerodrome was Manchester's first purpose-built airfield, laid out on a site between Trafford Park Road, Mosley Road, and Ashburton Road.
The airfield turned out to be little more than a grass strip littered with burned and shattered Soviet-built war machines.
The tactical plan included coordinated strikes on Axis airfields carried out by Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress groups to tie down Axis fighter groups.
However, the projected 8,000 to 15,000 military personnel, servicing a complex of bases, communications facilities, airfields, and out-size embassy, look more configured to act in the civil war that is likely to continue.
American helicopters can be stationed at a single airfield to carry out search-and-rescue missions for any allied personnel in Afghanistan.
The American officer who completed the certificate had gone to considerable lengths to ensure it could be found, beyond the airfield perimeter: "700m out front gate to first culvert, 191 degrees for 50m, next to grave with stacked stones in same location..."...
Several of my own books have begun with a particular place or atmosphere: an intriguing old house (Nevermore), a wartime airfield (Flightsend), an out-of-season seaside resort (The Sandfather).
When, in late August, a German bomber hit London, perhaps by accident, Churchill shrewdly retaliated, though to no particular harm, against Berlin — but the insult to Hitler's pride was so intense that he discarded the strategic plan to take out airfields and aircraft factories, and began the terror bombing of London, just to show them.
Anti-shipping missions and bombing attacks against enemy occupied airfields were carried out by No. 224, 233 and 269 Squadrons without success.
