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Battle of Mount Kent and Top Malo House (view source)
Revision as of 04:25, December 15, 2018
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==Mount Kent==
==Mount Kent==
On the night of May 29th 1982, Captain Andres Antonio Ferrero's 3rd Assault Section from the 602nd Commando Company ran into a British patrol from D Squadron, 22nd Special Air Service on the slopes of the mountain. The British took control of the situation, but at the cost of two badly wounded SAS troopers. The Argentine radio operator, Sergeant Vicente Alfredo Flores sent out the following message: ''"We are in trouble"'' and then forty minutes later: ''"There are English all around us… you had better hurry up".”
The job of seizing the 1,300ft mountain fell to Captain Peter Babbington's ''Kilo'' Company of 42 CDO, who would be flown in by helicopters. Major Delves' D Squadron was told to locate and secure a suitable landing zone below the Mount Kent summit, but the lack of helicopters, coupled with blizzard conditions, meant it took five nights to airlift in the 150 Royal Marines of Babbington.
The job of seizing the 1,300ft mountain fell to Captain Peter Babbington's ''Kilo'' Company of 42 CDO, who would be flown in by helicopters. Major Delves' D Squadron was told to locate and secure a suitable landing zone below the Mount Kent summit, but the lack of helicopters, coupled with blizzard conditions, meant it took five nights to airlift in the 150 Royal Marines of Babbington.