Qualla: Battle of Wireless Ridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-wireless-ridge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Wireless Ridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-wireless-ridge Battle of Wireless Ridge: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-wireless-ridge/ This time they would not go in without their guns. Two weeks earlier at Goose Green, 2 Para had lost some eighty men and their commanding officer in a hard infantry slog. Their new colonel, flown to the islands and parachuted in by way of the sea, made a vow on joining them: the battalion would never again attack without assured fire support. On the night of 13 June 1982 he kept that promise. Wireless Ridge, the last of the hills guarding Stanley, was taken behind one of the heaviest bombardments of the war, and within hours the entire Argentine garrison laid down its arms.

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