AFOVA New Letter 2 of Year 2021

Section 5 – War Diary CV 2 No. 02 / 2021 Page 73 of 332 Perhaps 20% of those taken forward were returned to field hospitals as casualties (max 4/5 GR from Sylhet, and 4 Grds, 10 Bihar, 18 Rajput from Narsingdi). Number of sorties flown for cas-evac from other battlefields in IV Corps sector, from mid Sep to mid Dec 71, also not included in the table. Total Mi-4 Ops (110, 105, 111 HU’s) 32 Pilots. (2 VrCs), 4 Tech Offrs 84 SNCOs & Airmen 14 MI-4’s Appendix A 110 HU (1-16 Dec 71) 105 HU (7- 16 Dec 71) 111 HU (14-16 Dec 71) Pilots Pilots Pilots 1. Sqn Ldr CS Sandhu, OC 1. Sqn Ldr PN Chabra, OC 1. Sqn Ldr Nanda Cariappa , OC 2. Flt Lt PK Vaid (Flt Cdr) 2. Flt Lt RV Singh 2. MR Handa 3. Flt Lt T Jayaraman (Dy Flt Cdr) 3. Sharma 3. V. Singh 4. Flt Lt PN Rao 4. Francis Gomes 4. PP Rajumar 5. Flt Lt SS Hundal 5. IM Simoes Flt Eng & Tech Air Men 6. Fg Offr HS Chatwal 6. Shiva Krishna Approx 8 7. Fg Offr BLK Reddy 7. RS Murthy 8. Fg Offr C Dsouza 8. NLK Reddy 9. Fg Offr MM Ali Flt Eng & Tech Air Men 10. Fg Offr SB Mohan Approx 16 11. Fg Offr Srinivasan 12. Fg Offr V Sampath 13. Fg Offr JN Awal 14. Fg Offr Jagdeep Singh 15. Fg Offr SS Krishnamurthy 16. Fg Offr HS Sodhi 17. Fg Offr RV Chitnis 18. Fg Offr AK Oberoi 19. Fg Offr M Ramakrishna 20. Fg Offr RM Sridharan Tech Officers 1. Flt Lt A Shankaran 2. Fg Offr SK Katyar 3. Fg Offr PK Kamra 4. Fg Offr S Borikar