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- Sam Manekshaw (born April 3, 1914, Amritsar, Punjab state, India—died June 27, 2008, Wellington, Tamil Nadu state) was the first Indian military officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal, the highest rank that can be attained in the Indian Army.
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Manekshaw was seconded to a planning role during the 1947 Indo-Pakistani War and the Hyderabad crisis, and as a result, he never commanded an infantry battalion. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier while serving at the Military Operations Directorate.
Jun 23, 2024 · Sam Manekshaw, also known as Sam Bahadur (Sam the Brave), was the first Indian military officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. Manekshaw joined the Indian Army in 1934 and served in several notable conflicts including World War II, the 1947 India-Pakistan War, and the 1965 India-Pakistan War.
Nov 30, 2023 · After the 1971 Indo-Pak war, Sam Manekshaw took keen interest in how the nearly 90,000 Pakistan Army prisoners of war (PoWs) were being treated in their prison camps. He would often visit these camps to inspect the conditions of the Pak PoWs, and would often get mobbed by them in admiration.
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Jun 27, 2019 · One of the chief architects of India’s 1971 victory against Pakistan, Manekshaw is most famously remembered for bluntly telling Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that the Indian Army wasn’t ready for war in April 1971.
- Achyut Mishra
Dec 12, 2021 · Manekshaw was a flamboyant young captain when he married Silloo Bode in 1939. He “swept her off her feet” at a dinner party in Lahore; she was visiting her sister and brother-in-law who was a doctor in the British Indian army.
Feb 1, 2024 · New Delhi: Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, also known as Sam Manekshaw, stands as a highly distinguished military officer in the Indian Armed Forces. Born on April 3,...
Dec 20, 2021 · Flamboyant and colourful, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw or ‘Sam Bahadur’ (Sam the Brave)—as he would be known after 1942, was a personality unmatched and one couldn’t help but be impressed by his gallantry. In a career spanning over 40 years, Manekshaw saw five wars.
