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Jagan

Sanjay wrote:Bought mine too. Through Amazon so it will take a while for me to get. I know it will not disappoint.

Look forward to your feedback Sanjay.

Jagan

sameerjoshi wrote:Great Job Jagan......when do we get the western front?

I will refrain myself from providing estimates that end up being laughably inaccurate.

Jagan

shiv wrote:Got a message from Infibeam.com that they have shipped my copy of your book. Should be in my hands tomorrow. Now you better come over and sign it!

Keep the scotch ready

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Folks, I am pleased to announce the recent release into the market of the second book that myself and Samir Chopra have collaborated and written - " Eagles over Bangladesh : The Indian Air Force in the 1971 Liberation War " . Once again we tackled one of the Air Wars of the Indian Air Forc...

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Thanks for the book plug Sharma. despite what the write up said - no e-copy or e-book is planned. I have just got several copies of the book shipped to the US. I will be posting a link on the forum with special pricing for the forum members soon. For those in India - i believe infibeam has the best ...

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Can we move this back to Mil Forum please.. Atleast once in a while we would read it there and take action.. if its in GDF its going to be like never

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Congratulations guys.. did the new Mods go partying last night - saw the forum was down several hours

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FWIW, I copied this from the Library of Congress

http://osmaniac.blogspot.com/2013/08/an ... -army.html

An evaluation written in 1945 by an OSS officer (percussor to the CIA).

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Thanks Pragnya.. But I found the links I was looking for it was Pratik Sawardekar http://blogs.defenceaviation.com/aoa/indian-military-aviation-flight-safety-report-2011.html http://angle-of-attack.blogspot.com/2011/01/flight-safety-losses-during-2010.html (This has a re-direct enabled on the page -...

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Vishal Jolapara wrote:https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 5493_n.jpg[/img][/url]

Original Image ► http://www.airliners.net/photo/1964071/L/

Hope they paid ya ..

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Pragnya, I was not looking for the ejectionhistory site (Which i know) but another site - I remember it is a desi mil blogger - I thought it was aame.in but I could not find anything there.... thanks for links though..

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(Mod Hat On). Vivek - I read the entire exchange and I think you have been piling on Austin without reason - Take a chill pill . (and read your warning in the PM box)

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Someone on BR had posted a bloglink where they were tracking IAF Accidents for the past couple of years. can anyone point me to that? Need to cross check my lists.

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The only INA Tokyo Cadet who became a 'general' ranking officer was Air Commodore R S Benegal of the IAF. I dont think anyone else got to serve in the armed forces

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Good to see IAF Platinum Jubilee Sets images. Minor suggestions In the main images on page http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Galleries/Collectibles/Coins-75Yr/ No 03 and 05 are Proof Images and not UNC Images obviously 04 and 06 are actually UNC Images and Not proof images This you may like to corr...

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Thanks Anup.

I got the link to the gallery .. Hope to use it on warbirds

Best regards

Jagan

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Two sides of the same coin - how the victor and the vanquished reported the news of the birth of Bangladesh

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In case people havent seen this already

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiL_H92K1Tk

"Famous Air Battles of the IAF - Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon" by Anurag Rana

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Unfortunately very little is known of C-119 losses/histories.. The northern and northerneastern states claimed many aircraft - and this could be one such. not much help here i am afraid..

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Lilo, I wish i had a straight answer (Yes we will do it.. / No we will not) but unfortunately i dont. any forum tweak etc is just on a wish list of things to have, but are not finding time to do it . before the phpbb mods, there are a ton of joomla and gallery feature upgrades that we wish to do.. a...

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“If we said to Japan that her fight was with British imperialism and not us she would say, ‘W e are glad the British army is withdrawn; we recognise your independence. But we want certain facilities now. We shall defend you against aggression. We want aerodromes, freedom to pass our troops through ...

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rohitvats wrote:^^^Is that Salman Khan flying the jet....

The banian is definitely a match

(Sorry could not resist)

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101CZ was more the size of a Division than a corps. it had two Brigades and a adhoc brigade sized force.

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I can see Gandharv Nagra but no Sam Bahadur in the pic. ahem !! Fifth from the right hand side... how could you miss it ? :D because I still dont see Sam standing fifth from right hand side..someone else is. Is this shabeg singh second from Manekshaw? I remember that is the Corps Commander for XV C...

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I dont see Sam Manekshaw in the picture anywhere .. does anyone?

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1995: VayuSena MiG 21 @ Avalon Airshow - RAAFB Williamtown, NSW, Osstraaya Was a bit surprised to see it in, of all places, Osstraaya mayte! . Photographer remarks on the photo: "this aircraft at that time was owned by a group of Qantas pilots and was based At RAAFB williamtown in NSW. It's st...

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Here is an email I wrote on this subject some time ago. changed the text bit - names etc with whom I was corresponding were omitted. “I am afraid I may hold views that go contrary to popular public sentiment. This is due to the fact that as a weekend researcher I tend to dig a bit deeper into the cl...

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Reading the court document, it might be that Kundu was referring to general prisoners than POWs.. but hte judgemnt has attached a list of 54... a closer reading of the question suggests that it was asked about All Indians in Pakistani Jails (About 250 of them) and the list he must have attached cons...

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I am not qualified to comment on the army names, but as far as the air force names are concerned, And i say this with great defference to the families - Many of the names are included because the families still cling to strands of hope, without any substantiation A glaring example: 10. Sq Ldr PN Mal...

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In the euphoria of BD liberation in 1971, everyone forgot about prisoners in enemy hands. How can a govt forget Most likely he was never declared as a POW, then there is no question of the indian government forgetting him.. It would be the responsiblity of Pakistan to declare the soldier as a POW -...

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Geneva Convention applies to soldiers. The BSF jawan wouldn't fall in that category. Ramana, BSF, even Paramilitary and Local Police would be covered by the Geneva Conventions (Pt 1). From the description it would extend even to the RAzakars (Pt 2 below) Art 4. A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of ...

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Jagan: wrt, pow from '71, here is a link http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pakistan-ansar-burney-indian-war-prisoner-surjit-singh/1/185589.html The lack of more concerted effort from Indian establishment is puzzling unless they do not believe the info is true...the article does say that BSF has ta...

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I have no idea about that part - viv. where is the india-today link? We can take this discussion to the history thread fwiw

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Have this fetish to collect all enemy surrender photographs .... here is another for the collection: Major General El Edroos (at right) offers his surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces to Major General (later General and Army Chief) Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri at Secunderabad. g]http://upload.wikimedi...

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Have this fetish to collect all enemy surrender photographs .... here is another for the collection: Major General El Edroos (at right) offers his surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces to Major General (later General and Army Chief) Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri at Secunderabad. ]http://upload.wikimedia...

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Ther r who was a POW and finally repatriated after ~20 years in the Indian Army History thread. Do read it. Dont know how many more are there. Joe's Story Ah.. Joe's story .. Written by Wg Cdr Unni Kartha aka Cyclic. Dont get me wrong, I love Wg Cdr Kartha's writings. He has a flair for writing tha...

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atreya wrote:Kittoo is right, 1971 is a very realistic movie. Must watch!

I hope you guys are being sarcastic..
(in hyderabad, the movie would have been rated ..bandal

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sanjaykumar, Tell that to the Pakis. They still have Indian POWs from that war. Veer Zara was not just a movie. Ramana, which POWs are you referring to? Not the list of 54 that is put out everywhere which unfortunately has too many holes. ( i have a bad habit of looking at historical evidence befor...

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Lovely! Thanks for sharing

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Enough of Medieval History. This is the Siachen Thread

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