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Battle of Darwin and Goose Green (view source)
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, 01:10, October 23, 2016Created page with "3 Commando Brigade went ashore at San Carlos on the night of 21/22 May. 2 PARA established itself on Sussex Mountain protecting the South of the Bridgehead without opposition...."
3 Commando Brigade went ashore at San Carlos on the night of 21/22 May. 2 PARA established itself on Sussex Mountain protecting the South of the Bridgehead without opposition. 3 PARA landed in the near Port San Carlos driving off a group of 40 enemy.
On 26 May, 2 PARA was ordered to move south and engage the Argentinian 12th Infantry Regiment and Airbase on the Darwin/Goose Green Peninsula. The attack began under the cover of darkness of 28 May with heavy naval and artillery support. By daylight, however, it was held up by strong enemy defensive positions on Darwin Hill and Boca Hill and the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones, was killed trying to take out a machine gun post. The assault continued with some ferocious close-quarter combat and by last light the whole peninsula less the Goose Green Settlement was taken. Negotiations with the Argentinians produced their surrender the next day. Around 45-55 Argentinians were killed, and ''The Official History of the Falklands Campaign'' reports 961 Argentinian prisoners taken, although as its author Lawrence Freedman noted ''"the counting process was possibly less precise than the number suggests"'', and other accounts of the battle have reported a larger prisoner count.
On 26 May, 2 PARA was ordered to move south and engage the Argentinian 12th Infantry Regiment and Airbase on the Darwin/Goose Green Peninsula. The attack began under the cover of darkness of 28 May with heavy naval and artillery support. By daylight, however, it was held up by strong enemy defensive positions on Darwin Hill and Boca Hill and the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones, was killed trying to take out a machine gun post. The assault continued with some ferocious close-quarter combat and by last light the whole peninsula less the Goose Green Settlement was taken. Negotiations with the Argentinians produced their surrender the next day. Around 45-55 Argentinians were killed, and ''The Official History of the Falklands Campaign'' reports 961 Argentinian prisoners taken, although as its author Lawrence Freedman noted ''"the counting process was possibly less precise than the number suggests"'', and other accounts of the battle have reported a larger prisoner count.