Battle Of Sittang Bridge: When Sam Manekshaw Braved Death In 1942
NDTV
S.H.F.J Manekshaw was posted in the 4th Battalion of the 12th Frontier Force as a Captain in Burma and witnessed action during World War II when the Japanese were at the eastern doorstep of India.
The life of Field Marshal Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw has been turned into a motion picture, 'Sam Bahadur,' which was released today.
People remember him as the man who played a crucial role in bringing the Pakistan Army to its knees in 1971, a war that catapulted him as one of the greatest commanders in modern India, but almost 30 years ago in 1942 in Burma (now Myanmar), Sam Manekshaw defeated death to become a war hero.
S.H.F.J Manekshaw was posted in the 4th Battalion of the 12th Frontier Force as a Captain in Burma and witnessed action during World War II when the Japanese were at the eastern doorstep of India.
