Infantry Day: 75 years of historic Indian Army landing at Srinagar airfield

SRINAGAR, Oct 27: Exactly 75 years ago troops of the Army’s 1 Sikh Regiment had arrived at the old airfield of Srinagar, carried in Dakota aircraft, to protect Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistani forces.It was the first military operation of Independent India, a move that changed the course of the 1947-48 War. The first of

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