Tag Archives: Colonel Iqbal Singh Regiment of Artillery Chief of Staff Operation Eagle 1971

The Fifth Army – The Untold Story from the Chittagong Hill Tracts

In the history of Indian Army Medical Corps, I had the unique privilege to perform the tasks of Nursing Assistant and Ambulance Assistant in providing patient care and comfort when I had accompanied on foot and medically evacuated my battle casualties during the Indo-Pak War of 1971.

Award of Gallantry Awards – India-Pakistan War of 1971

MS-8466 Captain. R. Rudra Narasimham, AMC/SSC had served as a Medical Officer at Headquarters Establishment No. 22 from September 1971 to December 1974. He does not want to forfeit his right to claim the gallantry award of VIR CHAKRA which was recommended but not actually awarded.

The Phantoms of Chittagong – A story from the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Major General (Retd) Sujan Singh Uban, PVSM, AVSM, the former Inspector General of Special Frontier Force had published his story titled The Phantoms of Chittagong : The Fifth Army in Bangladesh and had narrated the successful military operation in Chittagong Hill Tracts in the 1971 War of Liberation of Bangladesh. I would like to tell the Untold story.

International Control Commission for Vietnam – The Great Eagle Connection

The connection between Vietnam War and Operation Eagle 1971. The Great Eagle Connection to fight Communism.

Sangram Medal 1971 – A story that I shared with the Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services

The Story about Indo-Pak War of 1971, the military operation in Chittagong Hill Tracts, and the Courage displayed by an Army Medical Corps Medical Officer.