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Citation: During “Operation Vijay”, on 20 June 1999, Captain Vikram Batra Commander Delta Company was tasked to attack point 5140. he skirted around the feature from the East with his company and maintaining surprise reached within the assaulting distance of t…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav was part of the leading team of Ghatak Platoon tasked to capture Tiger Hill on the night of 3/4 July 1999. The approach to the top was steep, snow bound and rocky. Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav, unmindful of the risk i…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Lieutenant Manoj Kumar Pandey took part in a series of boldly led attacks during 'Operation Vijay', forcing back the intruders the heavy losses in Batalik including the capture of Jaubar Top. On the night of 2/3 July 1999 during the advance to Khalub…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Rifleman Sanjay Kumar volunteered to be the leading scout of the attacking column tasked to capture area Flat Top of Point 4875 in the Mushkoh Valley on 4 July 1999. During the attack when enemy automatic fire from one of the sangars posed stiff oppo…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Naib Subedar Bana Singh volunteered to be a member of task force constituted in June 1987 to clear an intrusion by an adversary in the Siachen Glacier area at an attitude of 21,000 feet. the post was virtually an impregnable glacier fortress with ice…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 25 November, 1987, when Major Ramaswamy Parameswaran was returning from a search operation in Sri Lanka, late at night, his column was ambushed by a group of militants. With cool presence of mind, he encircled the militants from the rear and charg…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 15th December 1971, a battalion of the Grenadiers was given the task of establishing a bridgehead across the Basantar River in the Shakargarh Sector. Major Hoshiar Singh, who was commanding the left forward company, was ordered to capture the enem…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 16 December 1971when our position atJarpal in the Shakargarh Sector was subjected to an attack by a Pakistani armoured regiment and our troops were heavily outnumbered by enemy forces, the squadron commander asked for reinforcements. 2nd Lieutenan…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon was a pilot of a Gnat detachment based at Srinagar for the air defence of the valley against Pakistani air attacks. From the very outbreak of the hostilities he and his colleagues fought successive waves of intr…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Lance Naik Alber Ekka was in the left forward company of a battalion of Brigade of Guards during their attack on the enemy defence at Gangasagar on the Eastern Front. This was a well-fortified position held in strength by the enemy. The assaulting tr…
Click here for full detailsCitation: At 0800 hours on 10 September 1965, Pakistani forces launched an attack with a regiment of Patton tanks on a vital area ahead of village Chima on the Bhikhiwind road in the Khem Karan Sector. The attack was preceded by intense artillery shelling. The…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 11 September 1965, Poona Horse under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore was assigned the task of delivering the main armoured thrust for capturing Phillora in the Sialkot Sector in Pakistan. As a preliminary to making a s…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Major Shaitan Singh was commanding a company of an infantry battalion deployed at Razangala in the Chushul Sector at a height of about 17,000 feet. The locality was isolated from the main defended sector and consisted of five defended platoon positio…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Subedar Joginder Singh was the commander of a platoon of a Sikh Regiment holding a defensive position at a ridge nead Tongpen La in NEFA. At 0530 hours on 23 October 1962, the Chinese opened a very heavy attack on the Bum La axis with the intention o…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Major Dhan Singh Thapa was in command of a forward post in Ladakh. On 20 October 1962 the post was attacked by the Chinese in overwhelming strength after being subjected to intensive artillery and mortar bombardment. Under his gallant command the gre…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 5 December 1961, 3/1 Gorkha Rifles was ordered to clear up a roadblock established by the gendarmerie at a strategic roundabout at Elizatbethville, Katanga. The plan was that one company with two Swedish armoured cars would attack the position fro…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Tithwal in J&K was captured on 23 May 1948. After that date, the enemy made numerous attempts to recapture Richhmar Gali and thence Tithwal on 13 October 1948, coinciding with ID, the enemy decided to launch a brigade attack to retake Richhmar Gali a…
Click here for full detailsCitation: South of Tithwal in Jammu and Kashmir, D Company, of which Piru Singh was Havildar Major, was detailed to attack and capture an enemy occupied hill feature. The enemy had well dug-in positions and had sited his MMGs so as to coverall possible approac…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 8 April 1948, 2nd Lieutenant Rama Raghoba Rane was ordered to be in charge of the mine and roadblock clearing party at mile 26 on the Naushera to Rajauri road which passes through very hilly country. At 1100 hrs on that date near Nadpur South just…
Click here for full detailsCitation: At No.2picquet on Tain Dhar on 6 February 1948, Naik Jadunath Singh was in command of a forward sections post, which bore the full brunt of the enemy attack. This little post was garrisoned by nine men against overwhelming odds. The enemy launched hi…
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