It is a dark and bitter night in the Atlantic Ocean, as 21-year-old paratrooper Alyn Evans of Blaina sits onboard a ship just miles off the coast of the Falkland Islands. As an alarm goes off, he alongside hundreds of other soldiers, begins to lower himself through the darkness into a series of landing craft, some already two feet deep with ice-cold water.
The members of 2 Para would not be jumping out of a plane for their target tonight as they were usually used to, but would instead begin their journey to shore through the water where a number of intense battles lay ahead of them. It's 1982 and Alyn is about to be one of the first boots on the ground in the British invasion of the Falklands, a time he now describes as one of the most significant of his life.
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