Victory At Sea Memorial
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The Victory at Sea Memorial ( te, విక్టరీ ఎట్ సీ) is an Indian memorial constructed after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 which is dedicated to the Indian Navy and the Eastern Naval Command sailors. It was constructed in 1996. It is located on Beach Road, Visakhapatnam.


History

In the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, liberation war in East Pakistan, the Pakistan Navy targeted the Visakhapatnam Port to destroy the Indian aircraft carrier but the Indian Navy sunk the Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi, PNS ''Ghazi'' at the coast of Visakhapatnam and took the first battle victory in that war.


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