![]() Some reports said British helicopters were attacking Argentine troop concentrations as the British battle fleet moved closer to the islands. Correspondents in the combat zone said two Mirages had been shot down. Military officials in London said that an Argentine Mirage III fighter had been shot down in aerial combat by British Harrier jets and that an Argentina Canberra bomber had been hit as it apparently tried to attack British ships. One British frigate was damaged, but not seriously, by an Argentine bomber during a concerted counterattack, according to a report from Peter Archer, a correspondent of the British Press Association. With the onset of darkness in the combat zone, news reaching here remained confused and fragmentary. The British Broadcasting Corporation reported that fighters ''cartwheeled across the sky in a fierce dogfight'' with Argentine aircraft. Later, British destroyers and frigates bombarded Argentine shore bases on the Falklands from close range with their 4.5-inch naval guns, dispatches from the South Atlantic said. The fighting started after British bombers attacked two airfields on the Falklands early Saturday. A major air and sea battle erupted around the Falkland Islands Saturday as the conflict between Britain and Argentina over the former British colony turned into open warfare. ![]()
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