Jan 23, 2025 04:24 PM IST
Was awarded Nao Sena Medal for planning and executing Operations Trident and Python as a part of the Indian Navy’s assaults on Karachi in December 1971.
Commodore TS Khurana (retd), who was awarded the Nao Sena Medal for planning and executing Operations Trident and Python as a part of the Indian Navy’s assaults on Karachi throughout the Indo-Pak struggle in December 1971, handed away in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Commodore TS Khurana (retd) was awarded the Nao Sena Medal for planning and executing Operations Trident and Python as a part of the Indian Navy’s assaults on Karachi throughout the Indo-Pak struggle in December 1971. (File photograph)
He was 91. The antim ardas (prayer assembly) might be held at Gurdwara Sahib in Sector 8, Chandigarh, from 3pm to 4pm on January 26, his household mentioned.
Posted because the deputy director of weapon coverage and ways on the navy headquarters in New Delhi, he was made the fleet navigating officer of the very important Western Fleet to hold out one of the daring assaults simply months earlier than the 1971 struggle broke out. In addition to commanding INS Kirpan and INS Trishul, he led the twenty fifth missile boat squadron, generally known as the killer squadron, due to its lethal assault on Karachi. The squadron comprised 16 operational vessels.
Skilled in maritime research on the College of Greenwich in London, he was commissioned as appearing sub-lieutenant on September 1, 1953. He went on to concentrate on navigation and path (management of plane on board and plane provider) in Cochin and was chosen as advance crew for INS Vikrant.
He was the chief of employees and CSO (operations) of the Jap Naval Command for 3 years earlier than he served on the identical put up within the Western Naval Command in Mumbai for 18 months and retired on Could 30, 1987. Submit-retirement, he was appointed deputy director basic of the Coast Guard, New Delhi, until January 1988.
He undertook company assignments in Mumbai earlier than settling down in Chandigarh in 2014.
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