Story of A Kargil War Hero : Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey(PVC) 1/11 Gorkha Rifles.|kargil War | Indian Army

"If death strikes before i prove my blood,
I swear i'll kill the death".

These are the last words of captain Manoj Kumar Pandey before going on the war.
And he proved these words and take India towards the victory and badly destroyed the Pakistani Army.

When the War began the commanding of the 1/11 gorkha Rifles Col. Lalit Rai called captain Manoj Kumar Pandey and provide him a task to find out the missing patrol party and capture the KUKARTHAN post where the pakistani Army sets the full control in the Indian land .

after getting the orders he started moving towards the kukarthan post with a company .
The kukarthan post were surrounded by the hills and big mountains so the mobilization towards the kukarthan post were so hard and tough ,
And after this the enemy can easily see and moniter the whole movement of the Indian soldiers because of the heights .
Besides this Captain pandey decided to move towards the kukarthan post.

the first task was to find out the missing patrol of 16 grenadiers who were fighting with the enemies and soon he linkuped with the 16 grenadiers and he got a shocking news and that was the soldiers told them there are 5 more soldiers were missed on the warzone and the rest party were not able to establish the radio contact with those soldiers ,
captain Pandey decided to find out the missing soldiers and started moving towards the front .

and after  2 hours of searching he findout the rest of the missing patrol but unfortunately they all were martyred .
This was a very emotional moment for the captain Manoj.
before he start moving the enemy who were taking shelter behind the rocks and bunkers started firing on the patrol party of Captain pandey.
in this starting fire fight one soldier of the patrol party martyred on the spot . 

this sudden ambush on the patrol party surprised Capt. Manoj and he made a little change in his plan and he ordered to stop firing.

After few hours the darkness of the night covered the entire mountain and he made a new plan to attack enemy from the three side and take them as as a surprise and the soldiers start moving slowly towards the enemy bunkers and soon pakistani army realize that something worst happening on the Indian side before they understand something captain Manoj started firing on they and destroyed two enemy bunkers alone and rest of the 2 binkers were destroyed by the patrol party.
but in this fight Indian army lost their 9 soldiers but pakistan had a heavy loss. 
And this was the first victory of the Indian Army on the Kargil Sector.

Story of A Kargil War Hero  : Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey(PVC) 1/11 Gorkha Rifles - part 2 coming soon.

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