The following photos are taken from Nitin Gokhale's NewsWarrior Blog
Nitin Gokhale is currently the Security and Strategic Affairs Editor with NDTV. He has over three decades of experience across mediums--print, web and broadcast journalism, and has reported from and on India's north-east between 1983 and 2006, based in Guwahati before taking up the current assignment with NDTV. he had written three books, and continue to teach at various journalism institutes and Defence Institutions across the country. He blogs regularly at NewsWarrior
In October 2012, Nitin posted about 65 rare photographs dating back to the 1962 India-China War - dug out of archives by his friend Nitin Shastri. These photographs were mostly never seen before and offer a rare glimpse into the Indian Air Force's operations at that time.
Nitin posted:
"A friend in Pune, Nitin Shastri, has painstakingly collected these photographs by cajoling and persuading functionaries at the Defence Public Relations and Films Division.
I am putting up these rare photographs in a hope that we will remember those grim days and take appropriate lessons from those years laeding up to the border clash that has left a deep scar on the collective Indian psyche."
The photographs show IAF Mi-4 helicopters and the rare Allouette III sporting Red Cross markings - implying that this was a post-war photograph showing sick POW repatriations. The numbers on the helicopters indicate that this was from No.110 Helicopter Unit, which as we know operated extensively in the North East in the Tawang sector.
Date: 11/07/2012
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Mi-4 BZ593
Medics loading Mi-4 BZ593 with stretcher borne casualties.
Date: 11/07/2012
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An Allouette III during the evacuation
takes off. 110 HU operated multiple types including Bell G-47s
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BZ587 in its second lease of life.
rakshak.com/IAF/History/1962War/1092-Rego01.html">story of the 1962 operations.. Air Cmde Rego was involved in repairing a badly damaged BZ587 and getting it back to base after the operations ceased. Obviously the helicopter as seen in the photogr
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BZ535 in the air
A civilian Sikh official watches as Mi-4 BZ535 is in the air - possibly taking off
Date: 11/07/2012
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Medics
Medical personnel help carry a casuality for evacuation
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Medics (Possibly Red Cross)
Medical personnel help carry a casuality for evacuation
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Transfer to a Super Constellation
Casualties are transferred to a Super Constellation
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Transfer to a Super Constellation
Casualties are transferred to a Super Constellation
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Mi-4 Evacuation
Unidentified wounded soldiers being helped out of the Mi-4
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Mi-4 BZ592 during the evacuation
An unidentified IAF doctor stands in the door way of the Mi-4 during the casualty evacuation
Date: 11/09/2012
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Red Cross Helpers
Unidentified Red Cross Medical personnel - either Indian or Chinese Origin during the exchange - Do you know anyone in the photograph?
Date: 11/09/2012
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Red Cross Helpers
Unidentified Red Cross Medical personnel - either Indian or Chinese Origin during the exchange - Do you know anyone in the photograph?
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