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helicópteros ... que transportaban artillería durante toda la noche ... Antes del amanecer la patrulla regresó, moviéndose de igual modo que al llegar. Desde Monte
Harriet, en donde el mayor Rico lo aguardaba, el teniente primero Vizoso Posse transmitió por radio su información. Al arribar a la capital, ambos fueron al puesto de mando de la Brigada X en Stanley House para entrevistar al general Jofre. Vizoso estaba mojado y cubierto de barro: "Nunca olvidaré", contó, "la cara de asco con que me miró". Entró a explicar la situación al frente de Monte Challenger: — Aquí no hay nada, mi general; los helicópteros van para allá. Y le dio a entender que convenía atacar a los cañones ingleses por ese flanco desubierto, por su falta de defensa contra la infantería argentina, que no estaba lejos, aunque fuese con una sola compañía. El comadante de la Brigada lo interrumpió ásperamente: —¡Teniente primero: no haga apreciaciones!
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1517:"The last two serviceable Chinooks, belonging to the Air Force, also withdrew to the mainland on 9 June. An Argentine 'commando officer' told me that he was on this flight and that the intention was to collect a newly formed commando company together with 10,000 rounds of hollow-charge explosives which had been requisitioned from a French petroleum company in Argentina with the intention of returning to the Falklands and operating in the British rear." Argentine Fight for the Falklands, Martin Middlebrook, p. 217, Pen & Sword, 2003
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everything and shouted: "For f*#ks sakes don't shoot!" Taff in his usual casual manner said "what's up boys?" to which three very relived men approached and told him they had been dropped off by chopper on a recce on mount Kent, as soon as the chopper left they came under artillery fire and one was quite badly hit so they withdrew sharpish. Luckily they stumbled onto us quite quickly, Taff showed them the way to the CP so they injured guy could receive attention & be casevaced out.
1068:"Two Argentine Chinooks landed near Mount Kent and the forty commandos divided into three teams and advanced. The point man of a SAS patrol didn't notice the Argentines who crawled around to flank of the British patrol for an L-shaped ambush and opened fire at 20 Meters range. The SAS man was hit and the other three dived for cover, returning fire but were overwhelmed by automatic fire and grenades which injured another, who was carried away as the SAS withdrew."
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1213:"At about 11 am, May 30th, Captain Fernandez and his 2nd Assault Section, emerged from their hide intending to occupy Bluff Cove Peak. With Sergeant Humberto Bias, First-Lieutenants Daniel Oneto and Ruben Marquez scouting ahead, the section was engaged by 22 SAS' THQ and a firefight developed. Marquez threw grenades but was killed as he was wearing gloves and unable to operate his rifle. Sergeant Blas was also killed."
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to San Carlos to bring in more guns and ammo. Then we hit the water at 100 knots. The bow wave came over the cockpit window as we settled and the engines partially flamed out. I knew we had ditched but I was not sure if we had been hit. Dick said he thought we had been hit by ground fire. As the helicopter settled the bow wave reduced and the engine wound up as we came out of the water like a cork out of a bottle.
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1203:"Suddenly there was a burst of firing, and the distinct crack of at least one grenade going off ... One of the blokes took splinter wounds from the grenade in his back and was brought up to our position to be looked after ... The other casualty's shrapnel wounds were unpleasant but not serious." SAS: Sea King Down, Mark Aston & Stuart Tootal, Penguin Books, 2021
1104:"Ferrero's men advanced up the steep slopes, the thought of bumping into a British patrol or walking into an ambush keeping them alert. After about 500 metres Ferrero went forward with two men to investigate a noise. They covered 50 metres when they came under machine-gun and mortar fire. First-Sergeant Raimundo Viltes was wounded when a bullet shattered his heel."
1535:"Marine Corps Major Raul Cufre, of the Tactical Divers, had devised Plan SZE-21 to install 601 and 602 Commando Companies, the 601 Border Guard Special Forces Squadron and a 1st General San Martin Cavalry Regiment squadron behind British lines to link up with the 4th Airborne Brigade." Victory in the Falklands, Nick Van Der Bijl, p. 178, Pen & Sword, 2007
1080:"He was an Army commando who had fought against the People's Revolutionary Army in Tucuman province during the 'Dirty War'. Thoroughly professional and a dedicated soldier, he expected high standards and exercised rigid but fair discipline. It was to Jaimet that Brigadier-General Jofre turned when he wanted a heliborne company."
797:'s Mountain Troop on the lower slopes of Estancia Mountain. Sergeants Jesús Pereyra and Ramón López were seriously wounded and captured along with Corporals Pablo Alvarado and Pedro Verón who were unwounded. During their reconnaissance of San Carlos, a British gunner, (George Joblin) was shot and wounded by friendly fire.
1268:"Fernandez broke contact and in the scramble down the hill Sergeant Alfredo Flores, the section radio operator, fell and was knocked out. When he came to his senses he was the prisoner of a SAS patrol and was later interrogated at 'Hotel Galtieri' in the farmyard at San Carlos along with the commandos captured at
785:, Captain Jose Arnobio Verseci's 1st Assault Section, listening to Captain Fernández's patrol attempt to escape British encirclement, decided to abandon the feature and attempt to link up with the platoon under Lieutenant Darío Horacio Blanco from the 601st Combat Engineer Company that was guarding Fitzroy.
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It was fortunate that I had ignored the views expressed by
Northwood that reconnaissance of Mount Kent before insertion of 42 Commando was superfluous. Had D Squadron not been there, the Argentine Special Forces would have caught the Commando before de-planing and, in the darkness and confusion on a
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Masters and Ewen Pearcy) in 16 and 17 Troops and a fifth SAS casualty that had broken his hand taking cover in the fighting, the exhausted men in Air and Boat Troops were withdrawn from the frontline for
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British helicopter inserted a 3-man special forces team to establish an observation post on Mount Kent but were discovered and long-range Argentine artillery fire wounded one man, forcing the remainder to vacate their hide and retreat with their wounded man to the rear positions of the
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Falklands returned to the Argentine mainland. The plan was to collect Major Armando Valiente's 75-strong 603 Commando Company together with petroleum shaped charges which had been seized from a French company operating in southern Argentina and insert this force behind Mounts Kent
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Following the successful establishment of the beachhead in San Carlos Water, Major Delves took his squadron 40 miles behind enemy lines and established a position overlooking the main enemy stronghold in Port
Stanley where at least 7000 troops were known to be based. By a series of swift operations,
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Corporal Horacio Núñez, the 1st Amphibious Commando Grouping (under Lieutenant Commander Guillermo Sanchez-Sabarots) embarked on two Argentine Air Force Fokker F-27 Friendship turboprop transports to reinforce the Argentine Army Commandos and National
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Lieutenant Roberto Enrique Ferre that had been moved forward to cover the retreat of the 4th Regiment that had been occupying Mount Challenger, according to Captain José Fernando Trindade from the 601st Air Defence Artillery Group. The Harrier crashed into the South Atlantic
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inside and ammunition pallets under-slung. Then the fog of war intervened, we could not find anywhere to land and spent time manoeuvring as we had to put them exactly where the gunners wanted because they could not roll the guns across the terrain. Once we dropped off the guns we went straight back
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of D Squadron, 22 SAS appeared and assured them that all was well. There were no
Argentine casualties, although one member, Sergeant Vicente Alfredo Flores with the Thompson Manpack Radio, was captured after knocking himself out in a fall. One Spanish-speaking British Intelligence Corps NCO on loan
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Argentine 4th Regiment also carried out patrolling, and on the night of 6–7 June, Corporal Nicolás Albornoz-Guevara with eight conscripts from the Two Sisters Mountain stronghold crossed Murrell River and reached the area of Estancia Mountain where they spotted a number of British vehicles, but
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shelled Wing Commander Esteban Correa's 40-man Argentine Air Force Special Operations Group (GOE) at Stanley Airfield guarding the Skyguard fire-control radars, killing Lieutenant Luis Castagnari and wounding four others who were preparing to take part in the occupation of Smoko Mount in support of
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mm artillery fire with Kim Sabido from Independent Radio News reporting on 31 May, "For me it was just another version of hell and the shower of shrapnel which accompanied each explosion was just a reminder of how close to the margins of life these men are now fighting. Kim Sabido with the British
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During the night of 9–10 June, a Royal Marines night-fighting patrol fired on several members of a mortar platoon from 45 Commando on the lower slopes of Mount Kent, killing four and wounding three British Marines.According to Captain Ian Gardiner, the company commander of 45 Commando Battalion's
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Arribaron al Challenger a eso de las diez de la noche. Desde allí se divisaba el monte Kent cuando salía la luna llena, oculta de a ratos por nubes. Había bastante luz como para observar con anteojos de largavista, o recurriendo a los visores nocturnos: era bien perceptible el vuelo incesante de
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after a difficult approach. Upon returning to Port Stanley, Major Aldo Rico along with First Lieutenant Jorge Manuel Vizoso-Posse, (second-in-command of Ferrero's patrol) tried to convince Brigadier-General Oscar Jofre to helicopter forward a rifle company in order to attack the recently arrived
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3 PARA reached Estancia House on 1 June, and shortly thereafter D Company patrols came across blood stains and field dressings indicating that the wounded First Sergeant Raimundo Viltes under the care of First Lieutenant Horacio Lauría had received first aid there along with the Argentine Marine
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were active over Mount Kent. One of them, responding to a call for help from D Squadron SAS, was badly damaged by small arms fire while attacking Mount Kent's eastern lower slopes. Sub-Lieutenant Llambías-Pravaz's platoon was later credited with the destruction of Harrier XZ963 flown by Squadron
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SAS patrols from Air and Boat Troop squadrons and Major Delves' tactical headquarters (THQ) fought a number of actions with the Argentine Special Forces before the Argentines were forced to withdraw. The SAS's Air Troop patrol was at first driven but managed to hold onto the summit of Mount Kent
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During a lull in firing Alan (Taff) Williams was doing some work on one of our trenches when he heard a noise, on popping his head up over the top of the trench he was confronted by three guys two of them carrying another. When they saw a disembodied head appear and challenge them they dropped
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The first engagement occurred during the night of the 29–30 May 1982 when the 3rd Assault Section of 602 Commando Company, led by Captain Andrés Ferrero, ran into Air Troop from D Squadron, 22nd SAS, on the slopes of Mount Kent, sustaining one badly wounded (First-Sergeant Raimundo Viltes),
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X-Ray Company, the sergeant commanding the fighting patrol spotted the mortar section approaching from the direction of the enemy positions in the valley between Mount Longdon and Two Sisters Mountain and ordered his men to open fire believing them to be an Argentine Special Forces patrol.
1432:"That left only 16 and 17 Troops for Stanley, both depleted by casualties sustained on Mount Kent. Unhesitatingly, G Squadron stepped forward, their 23 Troop making up our numbers." Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War, Cedric Delves, p. ?, Oxford University Press, 2019
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The next day, around 11.00 local time, Captain Tomás Fernández's 12-man, 2nd Assault Section attempted to seize Bluff Cove Peak. The radio operator, First Sergeant Vicente Alfredo Flores,sent out the following radio message from the slopes of Bluff Cove Peak at about 5 PM on 30 May:
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patrols from G Squadron found that a number of high peaks overlooking the Argentine defences around Port Stanley were largely undefended, after the Argentine heliborne reserve 'Combat Team Solari' (B Company, 12th Infantry Regiment) had been dispatched to support the fighting at
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carried out several bombing runs against British troops in the area. In the first raid on June 1, six Canberras attacked British troop positions in the Mount Kent area after Captains Ferrero and Villarruel were given a map of the area and told to pinpoint the British positions.
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much-needed rest and replaced by 23 Troop, G Squadron SAS. 18 and 19 Troops, in the meantime, commenced operations against the Argentine garrisons at Fox Bay and Port Howard in West Falkland. Mount Kent would come under sporadic but intense Argentine long-range 155
711:' 'D' Squadron was deployed by helicopter on 25 May, with the remaining of the squadron arriving on 27 May in time to counter the arrival of an Argentine Special Forces unit under the command of Captain Eduardo Marcelo Villarruel, second-in-command of
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from the Blues & Royals helped clear Mount Kent from the remaining Argentine special forces and engaged the 4th 'Monte Caseros' (Jungle) Infantry Regiment troops digging in on the lower slopes of Two Sisters Mountain, opposite Murrell River.
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1194:"Two more men were wounded, but the SAS remained in control of its main positions by the morning of 30 May." Twilight Warriors: Inside the World's Special Forces. Martin C. Arostegui. p. 205. St. Martin's Press, 15/01/1997
1339:"During another action, an enemy aircraft fell victim to the 601 Air Defence's 35mm batteries. The plane came down in the water and the pilot, Squadron Leader Pook was rescued shortly after." Moro, p. 272, English edition
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This is corroborated by Marine First Corporal Jacinto Eliseo Batista in the lead transport that says the Fokker had to practically abort the landing while flying over the runway that was under heavy naval bombardment.
1116:"Two SAS men had been flown in with gunshot wounds that were quite obviously more than 24 hours old. We knew better than to ask them about the circumstances of their injuries, and instead simply operated on them."
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abandoning much of its equipment to the anger of Major Aldo Rico, their Commanding Officer. The SAS sustained two wounded during the contact.Another SAS man suffered a broken hand in the confusion of battle.
1128:"We had three of our own injured in the fight. Karl and Dick both had shrapnel wounds, but nothing critical. Digger had broken his hand and so I placed a back slap (a splint of sorts) on it to hold it firm."
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British artillery batteries the commandos claimed to have located using their night binoculars, but an irritated Jofre told them to go and leave the decision making process up to 10th Brigade Headquarters.
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The Gurkhas spent 11 June consolidating their position. This was initially under enemy 155mm shell fire that wounded four men and only slackened after counter-battery fire was directed in return.
715:. His commander, Major Aldo Rico, had instructed Argentine patrol leaders to move into positions around Mount Kent, secure the area and await reinforcement by Major Jose Ricardo Spadaro's 601st
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skilful concealment and lightning attacks against patrols sent out to find him, he was able to secure a firm hold on the area after ten days for the conventional forces to be brought in.
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to the SAS is reported wounded in this action. The SAS claim to have come under mortar bombardment while evacuating their wounded, and the Royal Marines from 7 'Sphinx' Battery of the
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The patient complained about the tubes in his chest, but the drains carried away blood leaking from the bullet's track. He was another survivor, and very much against the odds.
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Special Forces Squadron, and Major Oscar Ramon Jaimet's heliborne trained. B Company, 6th Infantry Regiment who had also undergone night-combat training the previous year.
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patrol near Teal Inlet who had strayed into an area patrolled by the SAS in the early hours of 2 June. SBS Sergeant Ian ‘Kiwi’ Nicholas Hunt was killed.
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766:"We are in trouble"
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97: /
2053:Categories
2028:Land mines
1901:Argentine:
1849:Argentine:
1790:Black Buck
1775:Operations
1761:Bluff Cove
1756:Mount Kent
1706:San Carlos
1680:Occupation
1660:Background
1365:7 February
1034:References
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824:San Carlos
791:Teal Inlet
679:Background
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661:Mount Kent
575:Bluff Cove
565:Mount Kent
522:San Carlos
474:Black Buck
455:Occupation
359:5 captured
357:18 wounded
335:2 Chinooks
326:3 Sea king
275:Royal Navy
249:G Squadron
85:58°06′47″W
82:51°40′23″S
65:Mount Kent
1998:Aftermath
1971:RFA
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1963:HMS
1955:HMS
1947:HMS
1939:HMS
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1925:Sheffield
1923:HMS
1912:ARA
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1797:Corporate
1783:Algeciras
1751:Seal Cove
1690:Surrender
1452:No Picnic
995:Aftermath
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596:Glamorgan
534:Seal Cove
501:Sheffield
355:9 killed
324:1 Chinook
315:Glamorgan
313:HMS
169:Mike Rose
167:Lt. Col.
149:Argentina
2033:Memorial
1979:SS
1957:Coventry
1933:Antelope
1920:British:
1867:British:
1811:Paraquet
1653:Timeline
874:Harriers
810:Sea King
554:Coventry
540:Antelope
487:Belgrano
480:Santa Fe
469:Paraquet
306:Strength
60:Location
40:Part of
1991:Related
1818:Rosario
1804:Keyhole
1699:Battles
1151:24 July
1028:Gurkhas
899:Stinger
881:of the
754:Seaslug
702:Harriet
669:Stanley
1941:Ardent
1875:Ground
1857:Ground
1842:Forces
1832:Mikado
1825:Sutton
1665:Causes
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864:mortar
760:role.
731:Battle
723:until
528:Ardent
517:Sutton
512:Mikado
494:Sobral
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110:Result
1949:Arrow
1894:Ships
1880:Naval
1862:Naval
191:Cap.
179:Maj.
2038:Yomp
1367:2010
1153:2017
700:and
645:The
52:Date
1870:Air
1852:Air
922:SBS
781:On
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