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Battles of Mount Longdon and Wireless Ridge (view source)
Revision as of 05:56, December 15, 2018
, 05:56, December 15, 2018→Wireless Ridge
Briefly under command of Brigadier Tony Wilon's 5 Infantry Brigade, elements of 2 PARA conducted a helicopter insertion deep behind forward [[Argentinian Army]] Special Forces patrols and [[Argentinian Air Force]]'s Observation Posts (OPs) on June 2. They liberated the settlements of Bluff Cove and Fitzroy, opening a southern flank of operations. On the night of June 13/14 2 PARA deployed 3 PARA and, supported by British lights and [[Royal Navy warships]], attacked Wireless Ridge. Argentinian artillery responded vigorously and the Argentinian Land Forces Commander, Brigadier-General [[Oscar Luis Jofré]] sent Major Guillermo Rubén Berazay's A Company (3rd ''La Tablada'' Mechanized Infantry Regiment) west of Stanley Racecourse to counterattack However, this stronghold again was secure by first light and shortly afterwards Argentinian resistance collapsed. Both British battalions followed up and were the first troops to enter Port Stanley.
Briefly under command of Brigadier Tony Wilon's 5 Infantry Brigade, elements of 2 PARA conducted a helicopter insertion deep behind forward [[Argentinian Army]] Special Forces patrols and [[Argentinian Air Force]]'s Observation Posts (OPs) on June 2. They liberated the settlements of Bluff Cove and Fitzroy, opening a southern flank of operations. On the night of June 13/14 2 PARA deployed 3 PARA and, supported by British lights and [[Royal Navy warships]], attacked Wireless Ridge. Argentinian artillery responded vigorously and the Argentinian Land Forces Commander, Brigadier-General [[Oscar Luis Jofré]] sent Major Guillermo Rubén Berazay's A Company (3rd ''La Tablada'' Mechanized Infantry Regiment) west of Stanley Racecourse to counterattack However, this stronghold again was secure by first light and shortly afterwards Argentinian resistance collapsed. Both British battalions followed up and were the first troops to enter Port Stanley.
2 PARA had suffered three dead and 11 wounded. The Argentinians suffered approximately 25 dead and about 125 wounded, about 50 were taken prisoner. In the final stages of the battle, the Argentinian commander, Brigadier-General Jofré had been offered the use of Skyhawks to bomb Wireless Ridge with napalm but he declined, believing that the British response would be equally violent and the chances of a surrender being accepted, non-existent.
==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==