My adrenalin kicked in and the happiness returned! It was time to go in for the kill again.
IAF Veterans Group Captain Dilip Kumar Dass tells Air Commodore Nitin Sathe about how the IAF decimated tanks in the famous Battle of Longewala.
Valhalla is undoubtedly enriched by the presence of Unnikrishnan Gangadharan Kartha.
He would have already convened the fall in and regaled his friends with tales of the distant land that they once inhabited.
.and then get scaled down somewhat. It will be difficult for any side to occupy meaningful territories, maybe just a bit here and there, and the destruction may vary on either side.
With butterflies in our stomachs, but confident of our mission, we took off for Jaffna on the morning of 24 July 1987.
IAF Veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe recalls a conversation with Air Vice Marshal Harpal Singh Ahluwalia (retd), then a wing commander and mission leader for the clandestine operation.