#BangladeshLiberationWar: OTD in 1971 2 Para of the Indian Army, CO Lt Col KS Pannu, executed a para-borne assault on Tangail, 80 km NW of Dacca, capturing the Poongli Bridge and cutting off Pakistani troops trying to retreat into Dacca ... /2 ImageImage
2: Some paratroopers had emplaned at Dum Dum, in full view of international correspondents, who excitedly reported, sometimes with wild exaggeration. UPI, for one, said that 5,000 Indian paratroopers had descended on Dacca (actually there were less than a thousand) ... /3
3: 11 Dec was also the day following the attempted breakout by the Pakistani garrison at Jamalpur. Lt Gen Satish Nambiar, then a MLI company commander, tells the story of their surrender over at @BrainsTrustIn:



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4: Also OTD a "Cease Fire" proposal sent to the UN by A H Malik, the puppet West Pakistani Governor of East Pakistan, was stridently disowned by Gen Yahya Khan of Pakistan. The inevitability of Bangladeshi independence was clear in Dacca, though not yet in Islamabad.
More tomorrow, and much more in my (hopefully) forthcoming book 🙏🏽🤞🏽

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#BangladeshLiberationWar: OTD in 1971, for the first time ever, a US-built F-104 Starfighter was engaged in air combat by a Soviet-designed MiG-21 – and shot down. This was a hugely significant breakthrough, in the world-wide narrative of air combat ... /2 ImageImage
2: Around 2 pm two PAF F-104s led by the respected Wg Cdr Mervyn Middlecoat SJ (pic 1) attacked AF Stn Jamnagar. Tho' low-flying, they were spotted by Stn Cdr Gp Capt Pete Wilson VrC (pic 2)'s OPs, "just far enough for a MiG-21 pilot to get from charpoy to fighting speed" ... /3 ImageImage
3: Two MiG-21s of 47 Sqn IAF scrambled, flown by Flt Lts MM Sehgal (L) & BB Soni (R). Following a short tail-chase, Flt Lt Soni shot down the lead F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch. He reported a parachute, but Wg Cdr Middlecoat was never found ... /4 ImageImage
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