The Battle for Bangladesh | The Story of Jewel & the Crack Platoon
Remembering Jewel | The Forgotten Hero of Bangladesh On August 29, 1971, Abdul Halim Chowdhury Jewel was abducted from his mother’s home in Dhaka. Pakistani soldiers stormed the house late at night. Jewel was a freedom fighter and elite commando in the Crack Platoon. An informant had exposed him after a series of guerrilla attacks…
