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Pebble Island raid
Part of the Falklands War
Location of Pebble Island (in red), north of the West Falkland island.
The raid on Pebble Island was a raid by British Special Forces on Pebble Island's airfield during the Falklands War, and took place on the night of 14–15 May 1982. Pebble Island is one of the smaller Falkland Islands, lying north of West Falkland. The site was being used as a forward operating base for T-34 Mentor and Pucara aircraft by the Argentine Air Force; British Special Air Service (SAS) operatives were tasked with destroying the aircraft on the ground, in an operation that echoed back to some of the unit's first missions during the North African Campaign of World War II. SAS elements, then embarked on HMS Hermes, were tasked with eliminating the airfield, with naval support from the Type 22 frigate HMS Broadsword as Hermes defensive escort and the County-class destroyer HMS Glamorgan to provide naval gunfire support with its Mark 6 4.5 inch guns.
During the night of 14 May, two Westland Sea King HC4 helicopters of 846 Naval Air Squadron departed with 45 members of D Squadron on board. The force infiltrated the airfield to lay charges on the aircraft with their mortar teams and HMS Glamorgan providing distracting fire. The aircraft were attacked using thermite grenades wrapped in PE-4 explosives with 4 second fuses, the cockpit glass was broken and the charges were thrown inside. Five of the aircraft were destroyed in this manner, whilst the rest were damaged with small arms fire. Following this cue Glamorgan began shelling the Argentine positions on the airfield using high-explosive rounds, hitting the ammunition dump and fuel stores. The defending force did not engage until the entire raiding party had re-grouped and were preparing to move out. One British soldier was wounded by an Argentine improvised explosive device (IED) while the raiding party returned fire, resulting in the death of the Argentine commanding officer (according to British assessments) and the suppression of any defensive effort. The wounded man was hauled back to the recovery site with the raiding party reaching the aircraft by the required time for transportation back to Hermes before daybreak.
^"The SAS raid on the airfield at Pebble Island - 14 May 1982 at the RAF website". Retrieved 2013-05-10.
^The Complete Encyclopedia of the SAS, Barry Davies, p. 133, Virgin, 1998
^Ruiz Moreno, L.J.:Comandos en acción. Ediciones Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1987. Chapter VII, page 111. ISBN 950-04-0520-2 (in Spanish)
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