On this day in 1982, British forces attacked Argentine positions at Mount Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge with the loss of 13 lives. Some of the final actions before the liberation of the Falkland Islands, we remember all those who served and lost their lives. 🇫🇰🇬🇧 #Falklands42

8/ Falkland Islanders were very keen to support the allied efforts and donated over £50,000 (almost £3 million today) for the purchase of 10 spitfires for the Royal Air Force. You can see one of the Falklands purchased spitfires in the photograph below. #DDay80

7/ The people of the Falkland Islands proudly served and supported the Allies during the Second World War. From a population of just 2,300, more than 150 Falkland Islanders volunteered for service in the War, however 24 Islanders were killed in the fighting. #DDay80

6/ Another Falkland Islander reported as serving on D-Day was Field Nurse, First Class Robert Rumbolds. Unfortunately, we have little more information on Robert's service other than the small note below provided to the Falkland Islands Weekly News in late 1944. 🇫🇰 #DDay80

5/ On 15th June 1944, two of 233 Sdqn's Dakotas had the honour of being the first allied aircraft to land in France since the beginning of the invasion. After the War, Flt Lt McLeod moved into the Royal Auxiliary Air Force - sadly he passed away on 10th October 1954. #DDay80

4/ Flt Lt McLeod recounted his experience of flying on D-Day in an extraordinary account he provided to the then Falkland Islands Weekly News. 📰 'I will never forget, about 3,000 heavy bombers ahead of us...the sky was just a line with paratroops and bursting shells'. #DDay80

3/ After stints training pilots in Canada, Flt Lt McLeod returned to England with 233 Squadron in preparation for D-Day. Flying one of the Squadron's Douglas Dakotas, Flt Lt McLeod carried men of the 3rd Parachute Brigade during the early hours of 6th June 1944. 🪂 #DDay80

2/ Flight Lieutenant Norman McLeod was born in Stanley in 1911. 🇫🇰 He began his career as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy between 1928 and 1935 before enlisting with the RAF as an Airman Pilot in 1936 - he then received his commission as Pilot Officer in 1941. 🇬🇧 #DDay80

1/ On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we remember those whose service and sacrifice turned the tide of the Second World War. We also remember the Falkland Islanders involved on D-Day - a short thread on the extraordinary service of Flight Lieutenant Norman McLeod. 🧵🇫🇰 #DDay80

9/ With sincere thanks to the excellent @JCNArchives and @FIMuseum for their help in providing the information and documentation for Flt Lt Norman McLeod and Field Nurse, First Class Robert Rumbolds. Special thanks also to Flt Lt McLeod's daughter, Felicity Moyes. 🇫🇰🇬🇧 #DDay80