War in Our Times | How Indian Army gave Chinese PLA a bloody nose at Nathu La and Cho La in 1967

It was exactly five years after the humiliating defeat at the hands of the Chinese in North-East Frontier Agency and Ladakh that the Indian Army redeemed itself by giving the People's Liberation Army and Border Guards a bloody nose at Nathu La and Cho La. In September 1967, clashes between the PLA and the Indian Army across two high-altitude passes in Sikkim - Nathu La and Cho La (15,000 feet) - left hundreds of dead on both sides. It was the first time since the 1962 war that the two nations had exchanged artillery fire. Notwithstanding the clash at Galwan…