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*[[Operation Cactus-Lilly]]
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Flight Lieutenant '''Vijay Vasant Tambay''' was an officer of the [[Indian Air Force]] whose aircraft was shot down on 5 December 1971 over West Pakistan while on a [[Offensive counter air|strike]] against the [[Pakistan Air Force|Pakistani airbase]] of [[Rafiqui Airbase|Rafiqui]], during the [[1971 Indo-Pak War]]. Officially recorded by the [[Indian Air Force]] as killed in action,<ref name=IAF>{{cite web
| author =
| publisher = Indian Air Force
| url=http://indianairforce.nic.in/show_martyrs.php?page=6&pg_id=50
| title= Martyrs of the IAF
| accessdate=2008-06-12
}}</ref> Flt Lt Tambay is believed to have been one of the five pilots reported by [[Pakistan Observer]] to have been captured alive on 5 December 1971.<ref name=Tribune>{{cite web
| author =
| publisher = The Tribune, Chandigarh
| url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070605/world.htm#1
| title= Kin of PoWs present evidence to Pak media
| accessdate=2008-06-12
}}</ref> However, although a number of reports from eyewitnesses have subsequently suggested that Flt Lt Tambay was indeed captured alive, he was not repatriated at the end of the war, while the Pakistan Government denies having in their possession any Indian Prisoners of War from the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971 war]],.<ref name=Tribune2>{{cite web
| author =
| publisher = The Tribune, Chandigarh
| url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010524/haryana.htm#20
| title= Bring them home, say relatives of missing defence personnel
| accessdate=2008-06-12
}}</ref> making him one of [[The missing 54]] Indian defence personnel from the war who are believed to be in Pakistani custody.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news
| author =
| publisher = BBC
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6723263.stm
| title= Families search Pakistan for lost PoWs
| accessdate=2008-06-12
| date=2007-06-05
}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Damayanti Tambay]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080907093548/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1971War/Shorkot.html The Shorkot Road Raid]. [[Bharat-rakshak.com]]

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[[Category:Indian Air Force officers]]
[[Category:Indian aviators]]
[[Category:Pilots of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
[[Category:Indian military personnel of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
[[Category:Possibly living people]]
[[Category:Indian prisoners of war]]
[[Category:Aviators killed by being shot down]]
[[Category:Indian military personnel killed in action]]
[[Category:1943 births]]