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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SIPRA" data-source="post: 13531354" data-attributes="member: 194768">Here are two excerpts from the book (2012), entitled "In the Line of Duty", by Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh, GOC-in-C, Western Command, during 1965 War, which depicts the deplorable condition of IAF, during that War:"There was no risk to the airplanes taking off from the airfield. And yet, out of fear, the Air Force authorities withdrew their Fighter Planes from the forward airfields at Pathankot, Adampur and Halwara, without my knowledge. I believe, that they got permission to do so from the Chief of the Army Staff, with the connivance of my Chief of Staff, Major General Joginder Singh. This greatly upset our communications and arrangements for close-air-support to the troops at the Front. Several calls from the Front had no effect on Major General Joginder Singh, who was supposed to be manning the Close-Air-Support Organization at my Main Headquarters, at Ambala.""The troops on the Front, who had to bear the brunt of enemy attacks from the air, complained bitterly about the absence of our planes. A situation that I found very difficult to explain......... A most deplorable state of affairs, to say the least. The result was that during the critical period of early operations, the troops at the Front had no air-support, while Pakistani planes, taking off from Sargodha Airfield, pounded them mercilessly."<img src="/pdf/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Lol    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> <img src="/pdf/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Lol    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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