Well about your elders...broke...breaking...i know it hurts. PAKISTAN is there and there's nothing you can do about it! But dear i told you NOT to digress from MIG-35. So now this forum is gona be ruined because of you.
Pakistani forces thrusting six miles deep into Indian territory the south-east of Lahore have checked the Indian offensive launched on September 6 against the capital of West Pakistan
Pakistani infantry supported by armor and guns were today entrenched six miles east of the Indian border, and well beyond Indian town of Khem Karan, the capture of which last week forced Indian tanks and men to make a hasty retreat
From Khem Karan, an ever-green village now deserted by its 15,000 people, a 40-mile road leads directly to Amritsar, holy capital of Indiaâs restive Sikhs. And a Pakistani offensive along that road could threaten the rear of Indian forces still facing Lahore from East Punjab.
As I visited Khem Karan today with the first party of newsmen shown into India by Pakistani officers, evidence of the Indiansâ hasty withdrawal lay everywhere in the flat dust blown fields.
Intact mortars and American made ammunition, much of which was still crated, for 81 and 120 mm mortars, shells for 90 mm tank guns, rifle cartridges in hund #8B001As, stacks of fuel in barrel, had been left behind.
India had sent against Lahore one armou #8B001A brigade and two infantry divisions. The initial thrust on September 6, carried the Indians two and a half miles deep into Pakistan from Khem Karan and the Pakistanis say they were outnumbe #8B001A six to one.
The Pakistanis pushed the Indians back at the cost of bitter fighting. One Pakistani armou #8B001A unit ran into an Indian armou #8B001A regiment, the Ninth Royal Deccan Horse⦠and no shots were spa #8B001A.
I saw two Indian Sherman tanks on the road to Khem Karan blown clean through, one in the rear and one in the front, each by a single Pakistani shell with the dead crew still inside.
Indian dead lay unburied in the fields. An Indian border post was riddled with bullets and shells. This is real war, even though Pakistani infantry are now resting at forward posts, with Indians on the defensive and the main action in the air.
Indian British made Canberras, Soviet made Mig-21s and French made Mysteres and Ouragons constantly swoop, strafe and bomb from a safe altitude, for Pakistani anti-aircraft units are very much on the alert. On the the road from Lahore char #8B001A trucks lay twisted wrecks, one of them still aflame. It is war run by cool professionals, with every gun and tank well protected by camouflage nets, every trench where it should be, perfect discipline and very high morale.
Almost every Pakistani officers says: "we are not interested in territorial gains, but we are very keen to give the Indians a hard lesson and we wonât stop short of that
A.F.P. Corespondent,
reporting on September 9, 1965
If you want lets keep on going or if you wanna talk about MIG-35 then talk MIG-35! Your Call
The 1965 War ended in a Stalmate...nevertheless Pakistan captured more land, more PoWs, inflicted more casualties and much heavy losses on you that you did on us. And ofcourse the PAF knocked the IAF BIG-TIME!
Like i said before, the truth is hard to digest! You ppl can comment whatever you want or makes you happy, your only wasting posts on your beloved MIG-35 thread!
