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The year 2021 is being celebrated as ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh’ and the events that are being planned by the SNC will commence on December 4, 2020, and run through till December 16, 2021. Image  SpokespersonNavy The Southern Naval Command (SNC) headquartered here will organise a series of events in the coming weeks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of India’s victory in the 1971 War against Pakistan.The year 2021 is being celebrated as ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh’ and the events that are being planned by the SNC will commence on December 4,  2020, and run through till December 16, 2021. #Reliving1971 #WeRemember #IndianNavy in the years leading to #1971War . 1965 onwards, lot of thought was given to how best to synergize India’s Naval position with the existing threat perceptions. New platforms acquired... (1/3). #NavalArchives pic.twitter.com/LkwDpOhYwW — SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) November 24, 2020 The activities lined up for December 4 Navy Day  have been collectivel...

Vice admiral John Thomas Goslin Pereira is best remembered for the missile attack on Karachi in the 1971 war against Pakistan, in what makes for a legendary tale of the Indian Navy. Vice Admiral John Thomas Goslin Pereira. Photo: Twitter/@HotelUranPlaza. Vice admiral John Thomas Goslin Pereira (1923–2020), one of our last surviving officers who served during the World War II, passed away after a brief illness in Mumbai on Monday. He was 97. He was commissioned into the Indian Navy in May 1944 after two years of sea training in England. He went on to be trained as a naval engineer in Plymouth and Greenwich before returning to India and serving in Hunt Class and War Emergency Class Destroyers. He came to the limelight in the rank of a commander when he was the engineer officer of the flagship Cruiser INS Delhi and then the newly commissioned INS Mysore. He then became the fleet engineer officer on the staff of the flag officer commanding the Indian fleet. JTG, as he was known to one and ...