As I had noted earlier, the war was steadily taking the shape of an exercise. On the night of 6th December, the feeling of relief amongst the aircrew on the station was quite palpable. After dinner, I switched on the small transistor at the BADC tuned to Radio Pakistan Lahore. Read the rest of this entry
The battle on the ground and air seemed to go quite according to our plans. Pakistan had been made to commence the operations and our response from the air was quite overwhelming. The land forces had planned to blunt any Pakistani advance and it seemed that their plan was working too. Read the rest of this entry
As the sun set on 4 December 1971, with the war between India and Pakistan being barely 24 hours old, I was already burdened with a personal loss. Gopal, my closest associate for the past three days was gone. Read the rest of this entry
