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Battle of Khemkaran

Battle of Khemkaran. Ritu Bagga (Realtor) . 3018-Calgary Trail South, Edmonton (AB) T6J-6V4 Cell : (780) 907-3000. Euphoric Jawans rummage through an abandoned Patton near Khem Karan. . Pattons captured after the battle. Indian Centurion tank 1965.

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Battle of Khemkaran

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  1. Battle of Khemkaran • Ritu Bagga(Realtor) • 3018-Calgary Trail South, • Edmonton (AB) T6J-6V4 • Cell : (780) 907-3000

  2. Euphoric Jawans rummage through an abandoned Patton near Khem Karan.

  3. Pattons captured after the battle

  4. Indian Centurion tank 1965

  5. A captured Patton, abandoned intact by the Pakistan Army, in the muddy waters of Assal Uttar. Notice the hastily-put camouflage on the tank's turret.

  6. Pak Army tanks lined up at Patton Nagar at Bhikiwind, 25 miles from Amritsar in Punjab. The tanks were kept here for only a few months after the 1965 war, before being siphoned off to various army establishments and cantonments as war trophies.

  7. A Pak Army Patton destroyed & abandoned on the road to Khem Karan.

  8. As far as the eye can see, Pak Army tanks are lined up for display at Patton Nagar in Bikhiwind near Amritsar, Punjab.

  9. Abandoned Pak Army Pattons captured in the wheat fields of Mahmudpura, in the Khem Karan sector. The farmers had to wait for the arrival of the EME (Electrical & Mechanical Engineers) to move the Pak Army tanks, so they could do their work. However at times, the farmers used to work around these tanks.

  10. Pakistan Army Pattons neatly lined up at Patton Nagar in Bhikiwind.

  11. These two hits registered by the Indian Armoured Corps on the turret of a Patton, spelt the ruin of this Pakistani tank. It happened in Kalra, in the Khem Karan sector.

  12. HavaldarBaz Singh of the Dogra Regiment lobbing a grenade into a stranded Patton tank to ensure it was 'clear'

  13. Farmers wade through a field, filled with abandoned Pak Army tanks. The Pakistan Army lost many tanks this way, when they attempted to cross the muddy wheat fields of Punjab.

  14. The Pakistan Army's elite 1 Armoured Corps met its Waterloo in the Battle of Assal Uttar as they lost nearly 100 tanks, many of them being brand new M-48 Pattons. Bhikiwind was used as a temporary tank cemetery to house some 60 captured & destroyed M-48 Pattons, M-24 Chafees and M4 Shermans. The cemetery stood as a standing memorial to Pakistan's humiliating defeat in the battle of Assal Uttar.

  15. President Dr. SarvapalliRadhakrishnan visits Bhikiwind's Patton Nagar. At left is Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, PadmaBhushan, VrC, GOC Western Command and Lieutenant General ParamasivaPrabhakarKumaramangalam, who later rose to the rank of General and held the post of Chief of Army Staff from 1966 to 1969.

  16. A captured Pak Army M-24 Chafee, being loaded onto a tank transporter.

  17. Seen here being loaded onto a tank transporter, destined for Bhikiwind, is a Pak Army M-48 Patton.

  18. Vice Admiral BhaskarSadashivSoman, Chief of Naval Staff, paid a visit to Patton Nagar - the suburb near Bikhiwind Village, about 25 miles from Amritsar, named after the famous tank of which the Indian Army took such heavy toll. In this township are to be seen 94 of the tanks, the bulk of them American Pattons, that were the pride of Pakistan's 1st Armoured Division.

  19. A Patton lies abandoned, after running into a ditch, on the roadside at Khem Karan. The Pak Army was in such a hurry to go back, that they left whatever they could not take back immediately.

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