HMS Fearless met and passed the Carrier Battle Group shortly before dawn.

HMS Arrow continued her bombardment, covering 2 Para's advance through Darwin. She returned to San Carlos Water by dawn.

Air support for the Para's push into Goose Green was to come from No 1 Squadron's GR3, but thick fog engulfed the carriers and no aircraft could fly until the push was well under way.

The advance on Goose Green was covered only by three 105mm Light Guns. As the Paras probed the Argentine defensive lines Lieutenant-Colonel H. Jones made a single-handed charge in which he was mortally wounded, for this action he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

Pucaras based a Goose Green began taking off, armed with rockets and napalm. Machine guns, rifles and the Marine Blowpipe operators engaged them. Two Pucaras were picked off by the blowpipes.

In the late morning two Pucaras flying up Choiseul Sound from Port Stanley, spotted two of 3 Cdo Air Squadron's Scouts, also flying toward Darwin. The Scouts had been called up to collect Major C. P. B. Keeble, second-in-command of 2 Para, from the Battalion Command Post and take him forward to the Tactical HQ, from there they would evacuate the mortally wounded Colonel Jones to the Ajax Bay Hospital. The Pucaras attacked and the Scouts evaded the first pass. The Pucaras then joined in an attack on one of the Scouts, piloted by Lieutenant R. J. Nunn RM, attacking with guns and rockets; they killed the pilot and seriously wounded the crewman. Captain J. P. Niblett RM, piloting the second Scout, and his crewman were subjected to three further attacks which they skilfully avoided. The Pucaras broke off and the lone Scout continued its mission to the battlefield. Both Scout pilots were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Lieut. Nunn posthumously).

In the mid-afternoon a stiff breeze was blowing, which improved visibility and while this prevented Argentine naval Macchi 339s from taking off, it was helpful for the three GR3s taking off from HMS Hermes, which turned into it. The Harriers attacked AA gun sites which were firing over open sights at 2 Para. The attack proved decisive and defensive fire from the position slackened from 3.35pm, when it was delivered. The Paras began to make inroads on the Argentine positions.

'Juliet' Company, 42 Cdo (composed mainly of members of Naval Party 8901) was flown to Darwin to reinforce 2 Para.