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March/April May June June 1 British troops take Mount Kent, 12 miles from Port Stanley. June 2 With British forces occupying high ground eight miles from Port Stanley, Argentinian troops are under attack by land, sea and air. Mrs Thatcher offers Argentina last chance to withdraw before further loss of life. Two task force Harriers ditch after raids on Port Stanley - pilots rescued. Three Argentinian prisoners killed in explosion of ammunition at Goose Green and several other British and Argentinian casualties. June 6 Fitzroy and Bluff Cove are taken. June 8 Britain suffers its heaviest casualties on the grimmest day of the war. 43 soldiers and seven seamen die when the landing ships Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram are bombed and strafed at Fitzroy. Six more men die when a small landing craft from HMS Fearless is destroyed by aircraft in Choiseul Sound and five men are injured when the frigate, HMS Plymouth, is attacked in Falkland Sound. Eleven Argentinian aircraft are shot down. June 11 The QE 2, carrying 700 survivors of sunken warships HMS Coventry, HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope, arrives back in Southampton to tumultuous welcome from families and friends. British troops advance to within 10 miles of Port Stanley. June 12 Thirteen members of the crew of the destroyer HMS Glamorgan are killed and the ship was hit by a shore-based Exocet missile. Argentinian defences in hills overlooking Port Stanley are overrun by British forces who take 400 prisoners. June 13 British troops rout Argentinians in Tumbledown Mountain, Mount William and Wireless Ridge, and storm on to the outskirts of Port Stanley. Neutral zone set up in capital for 600 civilians. June 14 Argentinian forces surrender. March/April May June |
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