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.
.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.
The village in Maharashtra has continuously sent soldiers to the Army since World War I. Every other person you meet is a soldier or a retired soldier or is aspiring to be a soldier.