| − | On 29 May 29, Lieutenant-Colonel Diego Alejandro Soria, commanding officer of the 4th Infantry Regiment, ordered Llambías Pravaz to cover with his platoon the retreat of the regiment to new positions on Two Sisters Mountain and Mount Harriet. The British had landed in San Carlos on 21 May and and soon there were several clashes with Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) spearheads battling the 602nd Commando Company attempting to take over the vacated positions of the 4th Regiment. | + | On 29 May 29, Lieutenant-Colonel Diego Alejandro Soria, commanding officer of the 4th Infantry Regiment, ordered Llambías Pravaz to cover with his platoon the retreat of the regiment to new positions on Two Sisters Mountain and Mount Harriet. The British had landed in San Carlos on 21 May and soon there were several clashes with Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) spearheads battling the 602nd Commando Company attempting to take over the vacated positions of the 4th Regiment. |
| | By 11:00 am on 30 May, several Royal Air Force (RAF) Harrier attack formations were reported active over Mount Kent, near Mount Challenger in support of the forward SAS patrols. Upon detecting them, Llambias Pravaz ordered his conscripts to open fire with rifles and machineguns, with the platoon commander personally manning a machinegun. He would later learn that his platoon hit a Harrier, forcing the pilot, Squadron-Leader Jerry Pook to abandon his GR-3 Harrier off Port Stanley/Puerto Argentino.<ref>La Guerra de las Malvinas, p.352, Editorial Oriente, 1987</ref> | | By 11:00 am on 30 May, several Royal Air Force (RAF) Harrier attack formations were reported active over Mount Kent, near Mount Challenger in support of the forward SAS patrols. Upon detecting them, Llambias Pravaz ordered his conscripts to open fire with rifles and machineguns, with the platoon commander personally manning a machinegun. He would later learn that his platoon hit a Harrier, forcing the pilot, Squadron-Leader Jerry Pook to abandon his GR-3 Harrier off Port Stanley/Puerto Argentino.<ref>La Guerra de las Malvinas, p.352, Editorial Oriente, 1987</ref> |
| − | During the Battle for Two Sisters Mountain, Llambías Pravaz manned a 7.62mm MAG machine gun and an Instalaza-M65 rocket launcher, wounding three British commandos<ref>"We got two- thirds of the way up before anybody started firing at us, but then you kept us pinned down with a machine gun. It took us three-and-a-half hours to cover that last 100 yards, you know. We were hiding among those rocks getting absolutely hammered. Our gun section was up ahead and we were pinned down. A shell went off next to me, and hit three of the guys but they were just wounded. We were so lucky that we didn’t lose anyone.’ [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116389/After-bloody-battle-Royal-Marine-enemy-camera-Thirty-years-later-Nick-Taylor-tracked-Argentine-soldier-pictures.html After a bloody battle a Royal Marine found an enemy camera. Thirty years later Nick Taylor tracked down the Argentine soldier in the pictures]</ref><ref>"Fue una cosa bastante linda porque a los tipos venían a los gritos y se los veía recortados entre las piedras. Salió el primer cohete y se acabaron los gritos." Malvinas: la Defensa de Puerto Argentino, Oscar Luis Jofre, Félix Roberto Aguiar, p. 218, Editorial Sudamericana, 1987</ref>, despite the intense British fire that included MILAN missiles from the Anti-Tank Platoon from the 40th Commando Battalion. In the action his helmet was dented by a rock when a MILAN missile exploded very close to Llambías Pravaz. | + | During the Battle for Two Sisters Mountain, Llambías Pravaz manned a 7.62mm MAG machine gun and an Instalaza-M65 rocket launcher, wounding three British commandos,<ref>"We got two- thirds of the way up before anybody started firing at us, but then you kept us pinned down with a machine gun. It took us three-and-a-half hours to cover that last 100 yards, you know. We were hiding among those rocks getting absolutely hammered. Our gun section was up ahead and we were pinned down. A shell went off next to me, and hit three of the guys but they were just wounded. We were so lucky that we didn’t lose anyone.’ [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116389/After-bloody-battle-Royal-Marine-enemy-camera-Thirty-years-later-Nick-Taylor-tracked-Argentine-soldier-pictures.html After a bloody battle a Royal Marine found an enemy camera. Thirty years later Nick Taylor tracked down the Argentine soldier in the pictures]</ref><ref>"Fue una cosa bastante linda porque a los tipos venían a los gritos y se los veía recortados entre las piedras. Salió el primer cohete y se acabaron los gritos." Malvinas: la Defensa de Puerto Argentino, Oscar Luis Jofre, Félix Roberto Aguiar, p. 218, Editorial Sudamericana, 1987</ref> despite the intense British fire that included MILAN missiles from the Anti-Tank Platoon from the 40th Commando Battalion. In the action his helmet was dented by a rock when a MILAN missile exploded very close to Llambías Pravaz. |