Gallantry Awards
Awards & Honors · वीरता पुरस्कार · 12 facts
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Param Vir Chakra is highest wartime gallantry award
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Maha Vir Chakra is second highest wartime gallantry award
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Vir Chakra is third highest wartime gallantry award
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Ashoka Chakra is highest peacetime gallantry award
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Major Somnath Sharma was first Param Vir Chakra awardee
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Captain Vikram Batra received Param Vir Chakra Kargil War
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Subedar Joginder Singh received Param Vir Chakra 1962 war
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Flying Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon only Air Force PVC
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Lance Naik Albert Ekka received PVC in 1971 war posthumously
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Kirti Chakra is second highest peacetime gallantry award
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Shaurya Chakra is third highest peacetime gallantry award
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Param Vir Chakra made of bronze of captured enemy guns