5 things you did not know about Sam Bahadur

Sam Manekshaw was fluent in Punjabi.

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The man who was affectionately called ‘Sam Bahadur’ never actually served with Gorkha troops.

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Sam faced a vicious inquiry just before 1962 war with China

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Sam provided a Quran to a Pak Army Prisoner of War.

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