The Battle For Tiger Hill

It was nineteen ninety nine a battle was about to begin between the Indian Army with the soldiers from Pakistan My name is Yogendra Singh Yadav a grenadier awarded the Param Vr Chakra the highest honour for gallantry this is how the fight begun A stone loosened and fell as we climbed that hill after three nights of carefully silently climbing the Pakistan soldiers opened fire from bunkers metres above us not a good thing Neither up or down we could go heavy firing caused eighteen officers and men to retreat leaving just seven jawans with one hundred and thirty five men above us then We fired at the nearest bunker killing the men the Pakistani army came to assess our strength with ten men managed to kill eight but two of them escaped able to report back now we were in a predicament I carried twenty five kilo of ammunitions the battle was fierce, we killed thirty five of them, my six soldiers were killed also, I was alone, lying amongst the corpses They shot at the corpses making sure all were dead I received fifteen gunshot injuries and my gun was taken had grenade in my pocket, i pulled the ring and threw landed in cap of one of the soldiers, exploded,he was on his way to heaven They thought the indian army had returned I picked up a Peeka rifle off one of the Pakistani soldiers killing five soldiers, heard the voice saying retreat to attack a MMG base further down the hill I dumped myself in a drain, in no time was at base saw the officer Lt.Balwan advised Pakistan army was on its way Charlie and Delta was deployed to help Bravo Company This resulted in the hill being taken by the Indian Army This war took seven hours, and Tiger Hill was safe I have been given a plot of land by the Utah Pradesh Government for my part in the battle. Reference I used Targil Battle - Tiger Hill (I put that name into search engine). Seven hour battle that won Tiger Hill. Penned 4 April 2015