Major General Jeremy Moore now had sufficient force to start planning a full-scale assault on Port Stanley.

Advance parties of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment moved forward and occupied Fitzroy and Bluff Cove, when it was discovered to be clear of Argentine forces.

It took six hours to load the equipment, which led Sir Galahad's captain to request permission to postpone the mission for the following night, but the only concession he was given was to debark the Welsh Guards at Fitz Roy, before daylight made direct landing at Bluff Cove too risky.

Once at destination, the troops faced to options; either marching the 12 miles to Bluff Cove on foot or wait until being put on board one of the LCUs, now at the ready.

[8] The fighters departed from Río Gallegos airbase, which at the time was monitored by the British nuclear submarine HMS Splendid.

[13] Six Argentine IAI Dagger fighters simultaneously took off from the airbase at Río Grande for a complementary mission, led by a Learjet which provided navigation information.

The attacking aircraft were preceded by four IAI Dagger fighters which took off from Río Grande airbase to carry out a decoy mission over the north of the islands in order to draw away the British Sea Harrier fighters and allow the Skyhawks and Daggers to carry out their attacks unmolested,[14] while the Argentine destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad broadcast interference signals to jam the frequencies used by the Royal Navy's air controllers directing Sea Harrier operations.

[22][23][24] The fourth aircraft, which was flown by First Lieutenant Héctor Sánchez, suffered combat damage and lost a large amount of fuel, but returned to the mainland assisted by a KC-130 tanker.

[26] Sir Galahad was damaged beyond repair and scuttled with torpedoes by submarine HMS Onyx on 21 June;[27] but her sister ship survived to be re-built post-war.

[4] BBC television cameras recorded images of Royal Navy helicopters hovering in thick smoke to winch survivors from the burning landing ships.

In a subsequent documentary, filmed in Argentina, he met the pilot who bombed his ship, Carlos Cachón, who was by then retired with the rank of captain.

Cachón was awarded the honorific title of "Illustrious Citizen" by the city council of Mar del Plata on 25 February 2010.

In the TV documentary Falklands War: The Untold Story he says "the board of inquiry into the loss of the Tristram and the Galahad turned out to have been a complete whitewash, by saying it was necessary to open up a southern flank.