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June 11th 1982: The British troops get their orders ad move to form-up positions: Here, Colonel Nick Vaux of 42 Commando gives the orders for assault; a pinning action followed by a wide flank march: "This is going to be a straightforward, no-nonsense, Warminster style attack".

June 11th 1982: The men of 3 Para advance on Mount Longdon, but cover is blown when one man steps on a mine. With Argentine fire coming in heavy, and an outcrop to be used as a fire base being found to be overlooked, companies now break off into platoons, and the attack begins...

June 11th 1982: 3 Para fight to establish fire superiority. Here, the tracer fire between machine guns at Mount Longdon: "We just flooded the place, stonked it..." said Nick Rose of 3 Para, but return fire is heavy and casualties are mounting as the battalion becomes pinned down.

June 11th 1982: With 4 & 5 platoons pinned down, Sgt Ian McKay leads his team to assault an Argentine machine gun position. Two men are killed and two wounded, but Mckay braves the fire, lobbing grenades and firing his rifle: finally McKay is shot dead, but the position is taken.

June 11th 1982: Meanwhile, as the battle of Mount Longdon rages to the north-east, the Royal Marines of 45 Commando attack the Argentine centre at Two Sisters in a two-pronged assault from the Murrell River...

June 11th 1982: Two Sisters will be one of the most dogged defences of the war, with raw Argentine soldiers of the 4th Regiment clinging to the peaks and directing heavy artillery and mortar fire down onto the Royal Marines, who blast back with 66mm rockets & Milan missiles...

June 11th 1982: The Argentines at Two Sisters are determined, and pin the Royal Marines down under a withering fire in open ground. Though they make ground slowly, the Royal Marines soon call upon HMS Glamorgan to provide NGS to help blast the enemy out of their positions...

June 11th 1982:"VESUVIUS". The order to begin the thunderous bombardment of Mount Harriet begins as J Coy 42 Cdo move up. Times correspondent John Witherow reports: "The whole mountain seemed to erupt in flame. It seemed impossible that anyone could survive an attack like that."

June 11th 1982: As the time creeps towards midnight, British and Argentine soldiers blast away into the night, with British machine guns seeking to dominate Argentine machine gun nests from all sides as Milan missiles blast the bunkers... it's going to be a tough night.

June 11th 1982: Overnight, HMS Glamorgan, Yarmouth, Arrow and Avenger close in and fire an incredible 768 x 4.5" shells into Argentine positions in the mountains and in support areas between the mountains and Stanley, in the biggest bombardment seen so far in the war...