The 21st Kohat Mountain Battery was an artillery unit of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1851 as the No. 2 Horse or Punjab Light Field Battery, Punjab Irregular Force. It became the 21st Koh
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The No. 1 Kohat Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force. Chromolithograph by Richard Simkin, c. 1896.
India–Pakistan war of 1965
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The India–Pakistan war of 1965, also known as the second Kashmir war, was an armed conflict between Pakistan and India that took place from August 1965 to September 1965.
21st Kohat Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)
…Regiment was re-designated as the 1st (SP) Field Regiment, Artillery. The regiment fought with great gallantry in the Battle of Chawinda during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the regiment served in the Zafarwal Sector. In 1980, it was re-equipped with medium guns. The battery is affiliated…
Top, bottom: Indian soldiers with a destroyed Pakistani M4A1 Sherman tank Pakistani soldiers maneuvering a captured Indian AMX-13 tank
1965 Indo Pak War Destroyed Sherman Tank
A declassified US State Department letter that confirms the existence of hundreds of "infiltrators" in the Indian-administered part of the disputed Kashmir region. Dated during the events running up to the 1965 war.
Pakistani Sherman medium tanks and infantry push forward while under fire.