[0:00]At the same time as these Scots guards were fighting their way up Tumbledown, to the north, two Para were closing the ring around Stanley with an assault on Wireless Ridge.
[0:09]Unlike the other British battalion commanders, Lieutenant Colonel David Chandler decided on a noisy attack for this operation.
[0:15]with a large artillery bombardment beforehand and then overwhelming firepower used to secure his objectives.
[0:23]The paras were supported by a troop of Scorpion and Simitar light tanks, as well as extensive artillery, mortar and naval gunfire support.
[0:31]All this firepower soon told, driving the Argentine defenders off the ridge and enabling the British to rain down a curtain of fire on an attempted counterattack under Major Roberto Bereze.
[0:44]With the loss of Wireless Ridge, the Argentine defense of Stanley had collapsed. Hundreds of troops streamed east into the town, pursued by British artillery.
