12 September 1965
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The Casualities of 12th September - amounting to 144 martyrs
The Casualities of 12th September - amounting to 144 martyrs
The war has been extracting a toll of a 100 lives every day. 11th September was no exception
The second day of the operations showed the lull in fighting. Ten Soldiers are recorded as killed in action. Several were missing or taken POW and were not accounted till the war ended.
10th September was the day that the Battle of Khem Karan opened up with INdia responding with 'Assal Uttar'. 105 lives were lost on the battlefield.
The first day of fighting was relegated to the Chamb Sector in J&K. When Pakistani Armoured Forces crossed over the Cease Fire Line, it took the combined weight of the Army and Air force to stop them in their tracks. 53 Army Soldiers, the bulk of them from the 6th Sikh LI and the 20th Lancers, as well as three Indian Air Force Pilots gave their lives - on 1 September 1965
108 lives lost on 9th September 1965 . The Sialkot front had oepned up and the first casualities on that sector can be seen
Today marks 50 years since the day the 1965 India Pakistan war flared up. The war was thrust upon India needlessly - and by the time it was wrapped up, exacted several thousand lives on both sides of the border. It was a war that the Indian Armed Forces came of age, and they defeated the ghosts of the Chinese conflict three years before.
Though the official start was 1st September, several soliders already gave their lives up in the days leading upto the war. In this posts and subsequent ones, we remember the fallen and provide a place of perpetual remembrance for the families who are trying to honour them.
8th September saw 158 Casualities on the Indian side. evenly split between Kashmir and Punjab Sector
The Kargil war is considered the first 'Television War' in the post Cable TV and Internet era in India. It was also the first 'war' that happened after the thing called Internet arrived in India. The Bharat-Rakshak site was hardly two to three years old, when the war happened ...
The day after the opening of the Lahore front turned into a sludge fest as both sides got involved in heavy fighting. The Indian Armed Forces sufferred 131 deaths. including five pilots of the Indian Air Force - its heaviest loss till date.
A fascinating photograph of a Royal Indian Navy Veteran from the Second World War - protesting for the government to implement "One Rank One Pension" .. and the quest to find out who it is..
After five days of severe fighting in Kashmir, and with India always insisting that any attack on Kashmir will be considered as an attack on India, the Indian Government made good on its promising by opening a second front on the International Border at Lahore.
In the year 2000, The Times of India leaked several "Official War Histories" from the Ministry of Defence's Historical Division. That leak was the first time look at the various works of the MoD History cell. Bharat Rakshak ended up being the repository for the files that were released at that time and over they years provided a reliable download source.
The day before the Indian Army crossed the International Border was 'relatively' calm. Still 36 jawans and their officers were lost in the J and K fighting.
The IAF Database pages are now complete. The code needed a bit of a cleaning up and fixing. And in the end, everything works fine!
48 more soldiers lost their lives in the J and K Sector. two of the units 1/8GR and 9th Mahar sufferred most of the casualities
Despite all the fantastic content management software available out there, one part of the BR Site still has to run on home grown custom PHP code. And this code requires consistent maintenance and improvements. This part is our custom Databases for the Air Force site.
The pace of operations on the 3rd day of the war was compartively small. 15 Indian army officers and soldiers were noted as martyred.
As visitors may have noted, the news headline system is now online. And for the first time, it is running unattended with no manual intervention in creating these headlines.
Maj Gen Yeshvant Deva had written an e-book on the role of 35 Infantry Brigade in the 65 war. He had kindly consented to distributing it on the Bharat Rakshak site free of cost.
As the testing commences for the new "news" system, we took a look back at what was accomplished under the old News system software . We pulled some numbers and it was fascinating.