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Recently, my father, an officer in the Navy left, suddenly decided to write something like a small memoir. I laid out a pamphlet put scanned photos and brought it to print to the printer. To my surprise, the material caused great surprise among printers. It turns out the first time they heard that our fleet conduct military operations in Bangladesh. Ask around with friends, I realized that none of them about this too did not hear.

And therefore I now decided to change the situation ...

"From the first days of independence of the country faced a real threat of famine. The young republic was not able either to feed the millions of people, not to take relief supplies, due to the fact that the ports and waterways were partially blocked by the courts flooded and approaches from the sea - mined. The fighting was sunk 150 ships, of which eighteen very difficult navigation. Fourteen were lying on the ground near Chittagong and four in the area Chalna. Loads from most flooded ships were unloaded, and the ships themselves strongly sunk in the mud at a depth of three to ten meters, which greatly hindered their recovery. Setting minutes during the Indo-Pakistan war was carried out fairly active on both sides, about two areas.

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01. Meeting our military contingent in the port of Chittagong.





March 3, 1972 presidential plane NRB Sheikh Mujibur Rahman landed in Moscow. Bengali leader met with Leonid Brezhnev visited Defense Minister Marshal Grechko and turned to the Soviet leadership to help free his country from the ports of sunken ships and trawl minefields. March 6 command of the Pacific Fleet received a directive indicating urgently prepare an expedition to mine the Bay of Bengal and raising sunken vessels.

April 2, 1972. It arrived at the port of Chittagong detachment of the first vessel - floating workshop "PM-40", it has passed through the narrow fairway done by Indian trawlers. Soon came from Vladivostok ocean tug and diving vessel ... ยป

02. President Mujibur Rahman



03. Chittagong. Military base. Total construction.



04. Lifting potolennyh ships in the harbor of Chittagong.



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07. The trawler.



08. Bay Chittagong. Minesweeping.



09. Father escorted.



10. Kulpohod with staff on city streets.



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In Bangladesh, our troops are engaged not only in humanitarian tasks, but also participated in the fighting. There were losses in manpower.

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