Carlos Eduardo del Valle Carrizo Salvadores is a retired Argentine Army middle-rank officer and former police chief of Jujuy Province in Argentina.
Formative years
editCarrizo Salvadores was born on 7 August 1942 in San Miguel de Tucumán. His parents resettled in Catamarca soon after his birth. As a child, he spent his formative years at Colegio Belgrano.[1]
Early career
editCarlos Carrizo Salvadores enrolled in the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1959 as an officer cadet and entered the Argentine Army in 1962, as an infantry second lieutenant. Before being promoted to captain in 1974, he passed paratroop qualification as a full lieutenant and was transferred to the 4th Airborne Infantry Brigade where he served as a company commander with the 17th Airborne Infantry Regiment.
Falklands War
editMajor Carlos Carrizo Salvadores distinguished himself in the Battle of Mount Longdon, during the Falklands War, when as Second-in-Command of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, he defended the Argentine stronghold overlooking Murrel River and later led a hastily formed platoon of conscripts from the remnants of his rifle companies to recover the lost positions on Wireless Ridge. He had earlier personally taken part in the construction of his command bunker, according to one of his soldiers, Private Guillermo Velez who was interviewed in the book 'Los Chicos de la Guerra: Hablan los soldados que estuvieron en Malvinas' (Daniel Kon, Editorial Galerna, 1982). While commanding his troops on Mount Longdon prior to the final battles in the ground war, he received the unwelcome news of his father's passing in Catamarca Province but kept this to himself, not wanting to elicit attention from his brigade commander and be given compassionate reassignment elsewhere or worse still, sent back to Argentina. [2]
During the battle for Mount Longdon and Wireless Ridge, the attacking British Paratroopers had to several times take part in close quarter combat and fight off counterattacks, taking heavy casualties in the process in what is still regarded as the bloodiest British ground action since the Korean War. Major Carrizo Salvadores had proven reluctant to abandon the feature and only did so only when the attacking British Paratroopers got within 100 metres from his command bunker[3]and after a near from a MILAN anti-tank missile.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Carlos Carrizo Salvadores". Archived from the original on 2018-08-10. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
- ^ "Hablando tanto de la compañía en el Longdon y del regimiento en Dos Hermanas y Harriet no se puede pasar por alto el hecho de que el mayor Carrizo recibió, en el mes de mayo, la noticia del fallecimiento de su padre, ocurrido en la muy lejana Catamarca. Por supuesto que el mayor guardó para sí este hecho y permaneció en su puesto hasta el fin de los combates que se desarrollaron en el subsector de su responsabilidad." Malvinas: La Defensa de Puerto Argentino, pág. 203, Oscar Luis Jofre, Félix Roberto Aguiar, Editorial Sudamericana, 1987
- ^ "Ya eran las 05.30 horas y no había noticias del combate en el Longdon. Se llamó a Carrizo, pero no contestó. En su lugar lo hizo el teniente coronel Giménez, y de esa manera se retomó el enlace con el mayor. "¿Cuál es su situación?". " ¡No puedo levantar la cabeza por el fuego del enemigo!". Dijo, no obstante, que esperaba las primeras luces del día para ver si podía accionar ofensivamente con lo que habia podido reunir. "El fuego propio cae bien, pero el enemigo ocupa las propias posiciones y ejecuta un permanente fuego de artillería, morteros y ametralladoras", agregó ... A las 06.22 reapareció Carrizo manifestando que la infantería enemiga estaba a 100 metros y que tenía muchos muertos y heridos; aunque todavía se mantenía, ello se hacia muy difícil ... A las 0632 la compañía corta la radio para poder desconectar la antena." Malvinas: La Defensa de Puerto Argentino, Oscar Luis Jofre, Félix Roberto Aguiar, p. 227, Editorial Sudamericana, 1987
- ^ Imperial War Museum
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