Commodore A.W Chowdhury is a senior naval officer of the Bangladesh Navy who retired in January 1997. Professionally, Commodore Chowdhury remained a very sound naval officer of the Executive Branch of the Navy during his 35 years of service in various capacities. He is a qualified Submariner and a Long Gunnery Specialist with ‘psc’ from the Defence Services Command & Staff College. He led ‘Operation Jackpot’ at Chittagong Port and cut the lifeline of Pakistani Forces by sinking ships in Karnaphuliriver. After the war, over his next 25 years of service, he attended various courses/seminars home and abroad and commanded a number of ships with a long length of sea service. He also represented Bangladesh in 1995 for the South East Asia Symposium under Pacific Command in Hawaii, Japan, South Korea and Singapore and received the Best Award forInternational Human Relationship amongst 20 participants out of 18 countries. Commodore Chowdhury is widely known as a pioneer war hero of Bangladesh and for leading the submariner from France, the first team to join war from abroad, and forming/leading Naval Commandos for operations.He has been awarded the highest gallantry awards as recognition.