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It was 5.30 PM when 62 men<ref>"Calvi gives slightly contradictory timings for them, but it is clear that on 28 May 44 reinforcements arrived from Regiment 25, and 62 from Regiment 12." Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green, Spencer Fitz-Gibbon, p. 10, James Clarke & Co., 2006</ref>from Combat Team 'Solari' (B Company 12th Regiment) landed by helicopters at Ramsground. Mindful of the possibility of being counterattacked, Major John Crosland decided to pull back B Company and go firm on high ground near Boca Hill. Major Chris Keeble  
 
It was 5.30 PM when 62 men<ref>"Calvi gives slightly contradictory timings for them, but it is clear that on 28 May 44 reinforcements arrived from Regiment 25, and 62 from Regiment 12." Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green, Spencer Fitz-Gibbon, p. 10, James Clarke & Co., 2006</ref>from Combat Team 'Solari' (B Company 12th Regiment) landed by helicopters at Ramsground. Mindful of the possibility of being counterattacked, Major John Crosland decided to pull back B Company and go firm on high ground near Boca Hill. Major Chris Keeble  
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<ref>Major Chris Keeble took stock of the situation and estimated that one in six of the British Paratroopers had been killed, wounded or injured in the fighting so far: "In that dusk, I then took stock of our position. It was bitterly cold, it was snowing, one in six of us had either been killed or injured and they were lying around us. Our logistic supply had not really reinforced all our ammunition. We were very short on ammunition, and we were exhausted. We had been fighting for something like sixteen hours and we still had not achieved the mission." Channel 4: The Battle of Goose Green (1996)</ref>
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Major Chris Keeble took stock of the situation and estimated that one in six of the British Paratroopers had been killed, wounded or injured in the fighting so far: "In that dusk, I then took stock of our position. It was bitterly cold, it was snowing, one in six of us had either been killed or injured and they were lying around us. Our logistic supply had not really reinforced all our ammunition. We were very short on ammunition, and we were exhausted. We had been fighting for something like sixteen hours and we still had not achieved the mission."<ref>Channel 4: The Battle of Goose Green (1996)</ref>
    
A fierce sniper battle ensued with 2d Lieutenant Orlando Lucero's 12th Regiment platoon, now dug in among some sheep shearing sheds in Goose Green Settlement's outskirt along with 2d Lieutenant José Alberto Vázques and his men.<ref>Entrevista Nº 7: Soldado Conscripto Clase 63 VGM Carlos Landaida - RI 12 (available on YouTube)</ref>There were some close calls, and Private John Burridge from 12 Platoon, D Company, was wounded and a Wessex helicopter was hit by machine-gun fire from this mixed force and forced to seek shelter in San Carlos.<ref>Falklands: The Air War, Rodney A. Burden (et al),  Arms & Armour Press, 1986</ref>
 
A fierce sniper battle ensued with 2d Lieutenant Orlando Lucero's 12th Regiment platoon, now dug in among some sheep shearing sheds in Goose Green Settlement's outskirt along with 2d Lieutenant José Alberto Vázques and his men.<ref>Entrevista Nº 7: Soldado Conscripto Clase 63 VGM Carlos Landaida - RI 12 (available on YouTube)</ref>There were some close calls, and Private John Burridge from 12 Platoon, D Company, was wounded and a Wessex helicopter was hit by machine-gun fire from this mixed force and forced to seek shelter in San Carlos.<ref>Falklands: The Air War, Rodney A. Burden (et al),  Arms & Armour Press, 1986</ref>
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