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Citation: Captain Gurjinder Singh Suri was the Ghatak platoon commander and was located at forward-defended locality in Jammu & Kashmir. On 9 November 1999, the enemy launched an attack on own post, which was successfully repulsed, and the enemy retreated. Sci…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 08 July 1999, Sepoy Imliakum volunteered to raid an enemy mortar position at a height of 15,000 feet in Mushkoh Valley in Jammu and Kashmir Sepoy Imliakum formed part of the assault group and was tasked to stealthily silence the enemy sentry who w…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 28 June 1999, Major Padmapani Acharya as a Company Commander, was assigned the formidable task of capturing an enemy position which was heavily fortified, strongly held and covered with mines and sweeping machine gun and artillery fire. Success of…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Naik Digendra Kumar was commander of the light machine gun group during his company's assault on Tololing feature in the Drass sector. The objective was to capture a well-fortified enemy position. On 13 June 1999, when the assault group was nearing i…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Major Vivek Gupta was in command ofthe leading Charlie Company, when 2 Rajputana Rifles launched a battalion attack on Tololing Top, in Drass sector on 13 June 1999. Inspite of heavy artillery and automatic fire, the company under the inspiring leade…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Captain Neikezhakuo Kenguruse was the Ghatak platoon commander during the attack on area 'Black Rock' in the Drass Sector on the night of 28 June 1999 during 'Operation Vijay'. He volunteered to undertake a daring commando mission of attacking a well…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 30 May 1999, as a part of battalion operation to capture the Tololing feature, Major Rajesh Singh Adhikari was tasked to secure the initial foothold by capturing its forward spur where the enemy held a strong position. The enemy position was locat…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 03 July 1999 Lieutenant Balwan Singh with his Ghatak platoon was tasked to assault the 'Tiger Hill Top' from the North Eastern direction as part of a multi pronged attack. The route to the objective situated at a height of 16,500 feet was snowboun…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 06 July 1999, Charlie Company was tasked to capture an objective, which was a part of the Pimple Complex on the Western Slopes of Point 4875, in the Mushkoh Valley. At the beginning of the attack the Company Commander got injured and the command o…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On the night of30 June/01 July 1999, in an operation to capture Point 4812 in the Batalik sector, Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nongrum was tasked to assault the feature from the South Eastern direction. He led his column over the near impossible vert…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 30 May 1999, Major Sonam Wangchukwas leading a column of Indus Wing, Ladakh Scouts as a part ofon going operations in Op VIJAY in the Batalik Sector. The column was tasked to occupy Ridge Line on the Line of Control in the glaciated area at a heig…
Click here for full detailsCitation: On 2 March 1989, Colonel Vijay Kumar Bakshi led a company group of 618 Gorkha Rifles on a search-and destroy mission. The company encountered a militants' camp in the area of Nayaroo Lagoon in the Wani Sector (Sri Lanka). This contact, which started …
Click here for full detailsCitation: Captain Pratap Singh was deployed as an Observation Post Officer in the Siachen area in April 1988. The adversary made repeated attempts to retake a key post vital for the defence of Siachen. Their last attempt to take this key post was on 9 May 1988…
Click here for full detailsCitation: 19 July 1988, Second Lieutenant Rajeev Sandhu was leading a convoy of two vehicles from Madurang Keni Kulam to Mangani in Sri Lanka for collection of dry rations. On the way, his jeep was suddenly fired upon by militants with rockets and AK-47 and 7.…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Deployed in Sri Lanka as part of the operation of the Indian Peace Keeping Force, Lieutenant Colonel Inder Bal Singh Bawa landed with his battalion at Palai on 11 October, 1987, and went immediately into battle with the task of clearing the Axis Vasa…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Squadron Leader Aijamada Bopayya Deyayya flew in a Mystere aircraft as a member of strike formation that was assigned the task of attacking the heavily defended Sargodha airfield in Pakistan at 0555 hours on 7 September 1965. All members of the missi…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Subedar Sansar Chand formed part of a task force assigned to re-capture a feature called 'Left Shoulder' under the adversary's occupation at a height of 21000 feet lying between two Indian Posts. The task involved negotiating a stretch of 3 kilometer…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Lieutenant Arvind Singh was Officer-in-Charge of Indian Marine Special (IMSF) team which along with 10 para Commandos was given certain specific tasks as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force operation in Sri Lanka. Lieutenant Singh leading a team b…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Within hours of assuming command of an Infantry Brigade in Sri Lanka as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force, Brigadier Manjit Singh was tasked to establish a link-up with Jaffna Fort, along Western Pincer in the face of all-out efforts by the mili…
Click here for full detailsCitation: Major Puttichanda Somaiah Ganapathy was deployed in Sri Lanka as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force. His unit, located at Annakottai, was surrounded and repeatedly attacked by militants on 16 October 1987. His company had occupied this location t…
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