Title: My Years at Sea
	Author: Vice Admiral SH SARMA
	Publishers:
	Lancer Publishers & Distributors New Delhi.

Normally, attacks from the air are carried out at dawn and dusk, when the attacking aircraft are well camourflaged against the darkened skies and least vulnerable to visually fired anti-aircraft guns. Radar controlled guns are different, but not all gun positions have this. I reckoned that the Pakistanis would have had the news of our attack against Cox's bazaar, and would probably not anticipate another attack till dusk.

So I felt that it would do us no harm in carrying out an attack against Chittagong in the afternoon of the same day, when our 'friends' ashore would have just sat down to lunch, or just finishing. Our aircraft attacked the Chittagong airfield, damaged the control tower and set abalze a fuel dump. During this attack, our pilots reported sinking two gun boats and attacking and damaging six pakistani merchant ships in the outer harbour - two of them heavily. They encountered heavy A/A fire. When I later went to Chittagong, it was to see that there were anti-aircraft gun emplacements at frequent intervals along the banks of the Karnaphuli River.