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It was never my thing particularly, but I remember one bloke, we'd overrun a bunker, and he bayoneted this Argy through the throat and as the guy fell back dead he grabbed him and sawed his ear off with the bayonet. On the Argentine side, the 7th Infantry Regiment Reconnaissance Platoon (under Second Lieutenant Francisco Ramón Galíndez Matienzo) on the surrounding Wireless Ridge position was not able to conduct their own patrolling, as they had been designated the Argentine reserve on Wireless Ridge.

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And officials may have believed that, after the milit More than a decade later, Vincent Bramley is still fighting the battle of Mount Longdon, but this time he is fighting it alone. Others were adamant that it should be rigorously followed through but were saddened by the public credence given to what one man described as a 'stream of consciousness' series of unsubstantiated complaints.A further four Paras and one REME craftsman were killed and seven paratroopers wounded in the two-day shelling that followed, directed by Sub-Lieutenant Marcelo de Marco of the 5th Marines on Tumbledown Mountain. From their forward operating base, Selfridge and Burns dispatched patrols to scout and harass the Argentine positions on Mount Longdon. On 28 July, Malcolm Rifkind, the Secretary of State for Defence, approached Barbara Mills, the Director of Public Prosecutions, with the SIB report. The choice of songs indicates less that the Green Eyes were Nazis than that they took their military role-models where they found them. Oscar Carrizo, an Argentine survivor of a failed execution attempt, told the Independent earlier this year how he was stripped by paratroopers and then shot in the head.

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He said last week that members of 3 Para had described to him, unprompted, both the incidents detailed by Mr Bramley.But some boys [identified in the book "Two Sides of Hell/Los Dos Lados Del Infierno"] were still very depressed and, in many cases, were getting worse all the time. On the summit of the mountain, according to Bramley, and in the daylight aftermath of the battle, a number of Argentine prisoners and wounded were executed by junior-ranking paratroopers. Reassessing the Fighting Performance of Conscript Soldiers during the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) by Alejandro L. Horacio Benitez, a 20-year-old Argentine conscript who was shot in the head while fighting against both 3 and 2 Para in the final mountain battles on Mount Longdon and Wireless Ridge, retained a cooler eye on events. Lieut-Col Parker confirmed to me both his conversation with Bramley and the existence of the Mason / Parker letter.

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On the basis of this conviction and of a 20-year-old conviction for causing actual bodily harm, Bramley's account of events was held by much of the tabloid press to be unreliable, and 'written in the blood of his comrades'. In 2016, retired-Colonel Horacio Sánchez-Mariño (former 601 Combat Aviation Battalion pilot), in an online newspaper article criticized the anti-war veterans' group CECIM for accusing the Argentine Army of dereliction of duty, accusing the veterans association of being caranchos (vultures) that lived off the Argentine dead. By the beginning of the 1980s, however, the frustration and boredom of peacetime had given rise to some decidedly bizarre manifestations in the airborne ranks. Did these experiences, horrific as they were, distort the judgement of individual soldiers, and possibly officers, by the time the war reached its violent crescendo?However, they had missed a number of Argentine troops from the 3rd Platoon and these launched an attack on the rear of the unsuspecting platoon, resulting in a number of casualties before the area was cleared. on the morning of Sunday, 13 June, 1982, a British Army telex operator sheltering in a windswept bivouac on the eastern flanks of Mount Kent, high above Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, tapped a simple three-page memorandum into his machine. Stop this lunacy now,” pleaded Max Hastings, editor of the Daily Telegraph and a leading war correspondent during the three-month Falklands War. In six hours of fighting - mostly at night and close quarters - they had lost 19 men, with 35 wounded, and killed at least 29 Argentines, many with bayonets.