Warren Point, 1979: The Ambush That Forced the British Army Into the Sky
August 27, 1979. The afternoon. Three vehicles moving south along the A2 coastal road between Newry and Warrenpoint, County Down. A Land Rover at the front, two four-ton lorries behind it. In the back of those lorries: soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment — 2 PARA — six weeks into what was scheduled as a twenty-month tour of ...