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- Category: The Last Quarter: 1972-99
- Last Updated: Friday, 04 April 2014 03:43
- Written by M.P.Anil Kumar
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Lifeline Through the Sky – Ladakh 1962
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- Category: The Indo-China War 1962
- Last Updated: Thursday, 20 March 2014 02:31
- Written by Wg Cdr Joseph Thomas VM (Retd)
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Wg Cdr Joseph Thomas, VM was a young flying officer serving with No.43 Squadron in Ladakh during the 1962 war with China. His experiences during the outbreak of the war are narrated in this article.
Video : Planes of Hindustan, IAF in 1940.
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- Category: The Royal Indian Air Force in the Second World War
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 03 June 2020 01:43
- Written by Video Channel
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Planes of Hindustan was one of the earliest World War II documentaries to be made in India and it was the second to be produced by the company Wadia. The film has rare footage of No.1 Squadron from early 1940, However further information is missing on details available in the film. This is an updated higher resolution version of the clip we had updated seven years ago, with timestamp based analysis and links to the video.
Video : Flying Officer K V Nair repatriated after fall of Rangoon
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- Category: The Royal Indian Air Force in the Second World War
- Last Updated: Friday, 20 September 2013 15:07
- Written by Video Channel
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Rare WW2 era footage of former POW Flying Officer K V Nair after his liberation from the Rangoon Jail.
Databases
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- Category: BR History Projects
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 03:32
- Written by Webmaster
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The IAF Award's Database Section has been updated. More than 4800 Award entries, and 3400 Citations to be found in the DB
Video: The Spitfire was the reason that I joined the IAF
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- Category: Jets and Growth 1948-64
- Last Updated: Sunday, 10 June 2018 01:48
- Written by Videos
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A Spitfire veteran reminisces - Air Marshal S Raghavendran , who retired as VCAS of the Indian Air Force remembers his favourite aircraft - The Supermarine Spitfire. He was motivated to join the IAF to fly this legendary fighter - and shares his memories of those early years. (Duration : 7 minutes)
Missing! - The Jamsaheb's fabulous sword
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- Category: Miscellenous
- Last Updated: Saturday, 02 January 2021 20:58
- Written by Air Marshal Subhash Bhojwani
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The Nawanagar Sword of Honour was a gem-encrusted invaluable sword that was awarded to the newly commissioned Pilot Officers who stood first in their course at the Air Force Academy. The sword was replaced by the Chief of Air Staff Sword of Honour in the 1990s and it disappeared in the sands of time... till one diligent commandant of the Air Force Academy decided to track it down..
The Sky is the Limit - Wg Cdr Murkot Ramunny
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- Category: Veterans Project - Interviews, Profiles and Memoirs
- Last Updated: Monday, 22 August 2016 00:23
- Written by K S Nair
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Murkot Ramunny, had served in the Indian Air Force, flying Hurricanes in Burma during the War. He left the IAF shortly after Independence, to serve the Government in civil capacities. He does not bother to include his old IAF rank on his letterhead, which reads simply, “Murkot Ramunny, IAS (Retd)”. This is understandable, for his military rank is far eclipsed, in protocol terms, by the civil service ranks he rose to later; and to most people, his status as a former senior civil servant is what counts. But to IAF history enthusiasts like us, he will always be Wing Commander Murkot Ramunny. The article is now updated to reflect a Youtube video - a rare and most certainly the last time he was interviewed on video about his WW2 experiences
Pilot Officer Hukum Chand Mehta
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- Category: Veterans Project - Interviews, Profiles and Memoirs
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 04:09
- Written by Webmaster
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Pilot Officer Hukum Chand Mehta was one of the twenty four Indians sent to the United Kindom in1940. The Indians arrived on October 8, 1940, at the height of Battle of Britain, but by the time their training was completed, it would be April 1941. HC Mehta would be one of the six pilots who went to Fighter command. He joined 43 Squadron.
Inside Occupied Kashmir
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- Category: The 1947-48 Jammu & Kashmir Operations
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 August 2017 04:10
- Written by P N Sharma
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P.N. Sharma was a reporter for the well known weekly magazine the BLITZ being published from Bombay. He was one of the first war correspondents on scene in Kashmir during the 1947 airlift of troops to Kashmir. His 1957 book, Inside Occupied Kashmir is not well known, but is a rare insight of some of the first combined operations of the war. Sharma's adventure started with his being on a public relations joyride in one of the IAF's Harvards. This account tells what happened on that fateful day.
The day the PAF got away
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- Category: The India-Pakistan War 1965
- Last Updated: Sunday, 06 September 2015 04:18
- Written by Air Marshal S Raghavendran
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In war, much often hangs on a knife-edge. As this piece by Air Marshal Raghavendran shows, this was especially true of the famous PAF raid on Pathankot. It may have been down to the cautiousness of one man in a key position, that this single most successful raid ever mounted by the PAF against India did not run into a CAP flown by the top guns of the lead Gnat squadron of the time .