Indian Navy Day- celebrating manifold victories
Navy day celebrations at the gateway of India in Mumbai Actions s peak louder than words and when the action is done underwater it speaks the language of lethal missiles! And who better than the Indian Navy to attest to this fact! In fact Water and missiles summarize the day of 4 th December 1971 and since then this date i.e. today, is celebrated as the Indian navy day. You would be surprised to know that the reason for celebration is not because it was formed today, but because it successfully carried out its first anti-ship missile operation against the Pakistani naval force during the Indo-Pak 1971 war. It’s the day to commemorate the victory of operation Trident- a daring mission that even had the US president Richard Nixon taking notice of it and addressing the feat in his morning briefing. The planning and genesis of this operation took place immediately after the war commenced on 3 rd December 1971 and so the attack was planned for the n...