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Battle of Darwin and Goose Green (view source)
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==Darwin Ridge==
==Darwin Ridge==
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 (Darwin Ridge) and the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones, was killed trying to take out a machine-gun post. A Company used 66mm anti-tank rockets to destroy these trenches. Approximately, 3 hours after the death of Jones, the last Argentinian defenders on Boca Hill surrendered.
The attack began under the cover of darkness of 28 May with heavy naval and artillery support.
At 3.35 am, A Company moved off on the left and attacked Burntside House believed to be occupied by an Argentinian platoon, but found no-one there other than four civilians. B Company started forward from the other side of Burntside Pond down the right flank with D Company following them long the middle. With artillery support on both sides, B and D Companies were soon in close-quarter combat with the 12th Regiment's A Company (under 1st Lieutenant Jorge Antonio Manresa and Sergeant-Major Juan Carlos Coelho). Leaving No. 13 Platoon of A Company to provide covering fire from the north side of Darwin Bay, the remainder started to circle round to take Darwin Settlement.
By daylight, however, the British attack was held up by strong enemy defensive positions on Darwin Hill and Boca Hill (Darwin Ridge) and the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones, was killed trying to take out a machine-gun post. A Company used 66mm anti-tank rockets to destroy these trenches. Approximately, 3 hours after the death of Jones, the last Argentinian defenders on Boca Hill surrendered.
Still under fire, D and C Companies headed towards the Argentinian Air Base while B Company circled east to cut off Goose Green Settlement. During the attack, three Paratroopers were killed in an ambush involving a 25th Regiment platoon.
Still under fire, D and C Companies headed towards the Argentinian Air Base while B Company circled east to cut off Goose Green Settlement. During the attack, three Paratroopers were killed in an ambush involving a 25th Regiment platoon.
==Argentinian surrender==
==Argentinian surrender==
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 50 Argentinians were killed, and ''The Official History of the Falklands Campaign'' reports that 961 Argentinians were captured, with other British accounts of the battle have reported a larger count of 1,400 prisoners. A total of 15 British paratroopers were killed and 64 wounded during this battle.
The assault continued with some ferocious close-quarter combat and by last light the whole peninsula less the Goose Green Settlement was taken. With evening approaching and the Argentinians squeezed in towards Goose Green, more reinforcements arrived to the south by helicopter, while to the north, ''Juliet'' Company 42 Commando was flown in reinforce 2 PARA but too late to join in the fighting. Negotiations with the Argentinians produced their surrender the next day. Around 50 Argentinians were killed, and ''The Official History of the Falklands Campaign'' reports that 961 Argentinians were captured, with other British accounts of the battle have reported a larger count of 1,400 prisoners. British losses were fifteen men from 2 PARA, a Royal Engineer, a Sea Harrier pilot, a Scout pilot, a Gurkha and 64 wounded.
==Breakout==
==Breakout==