A critical look at the 1965 operations

Air Chief Marshal P C Lal at the National Security Lecture 1973 at the USI.

Chapter 6: The Lull – Air Operations (Sept 8th to 14th)

 

The Kilo Flight – a personal account of Op Cactus Lily

A rookie Flying Officer with four years of service, flying transports gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to…

No 28 Squadron

A history by P.R. Ganapathy 

The Night Raiders : Good Morning Peshawar

On September 13th, 50 years back the greatest bomber operation against Pakistan was launched by the…

The Untold Story Of Group Captain Karori Lal Bhatia, VrC

In this article, the author, Col N N Bhatia tells the family background and story of…

A SPLIT second decision in air combat

On 19th September 1965, Four Gnats of No.9 Squadron were involved in an aircombat with four…

Chapter 3: Air Attack – Outbreak of the War (Sept 1-6th)

Operation GIBRALTER, as the Pakistanis called it, was a brilliant plan. It was the brainchild of…

Brothers-in-Arms : The Flying Engineer Brothers

  Mrs Farida Singh, daughter of Jehangir "Jungoo" Engineer provides the background and motivation of the…

They did it again! The IAF lands at DBO!

The IAF returns to Daulet Beg Oldi - after more than forty years - This is the…