3 December 1971
Air Strikes on India
Pakistan launches air strikes against Indian airfields, widening the 1971 war.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Western India in Pakistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Pakistan launches air strikes against Indian airfields, widening the 1971 war.
Yahya Khan's government orders air strikes against Indian airfields as full-scale war begins on the western front.
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