Originally posted by Punjabi
at least two indian Brigades were totally destoried, two Brigade, that's 7000 soldiers. The Brigadier of the 62nd Brigade, General Singh, was killed. and the Brigadier of the 7th Brigade General Dalvi was captured. think it again, both the commanders of this two units were killed and captured, let alone the soldiers.
i have two sources about indian casualties, one british source and one chinese source. they roughly fit with each other.
quote from Neville Maxwell's "india's china war":
" In 1965, the Defense Ministry released the figures of Indian losses: 1,383 killed, 1,696 missing, and 3,968 captured. Twenty-six of the Indians died of wounds in captivity, and the remainders were repatriated. About ninety percent of the Indian casualties were suffered in NEFA..."
"7 Brigade ceased to exist. On October 22, Brigadier Dalvi was taken prisoner."
"Brigadier Hoshiar Singh was shot dead at Phutang on November 27..."
According to chinese document i read. at least at least 4000 indian soldiers were captured, 3000 were killed.
and i also give you the chinese casualties i read from chinese side, 1200 soldiers dead or wounded. NO ONE captured.
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