Seventy-five years ago on this day, the newly-Independent India's army fought its first big, combined arms battle, aided by air power, which not only thwarted for good the Pakistan-backed tribal invaders' threat to Srinagar, but secured almost .
Behind this victory was not only a canny commander, who braved his superiors ire in taking a major gamble, but feats of many other intrepid soldiers too.A fo