Vir Chakra (VrC)

Captain Sushi1 Chandra Sabherval was employed as AOP pilot in support of an artillery brigade in the Ichhogil Canal Sector. He was required to be airborne for long hours at considerable risk in order to provide information to our guns. He carried out several sorties to engage the enemy guns. On several occasions, he directed the fire of our guns on enemy concentrations of men, vehicles and tanks, thus inflicting heavy casualties on them. On several occasions, between 11 and 18 September 1965, he took aerial photographs of enemy positions flying at a low height, despite heavy enemy fire.