These water colour paintings were done by the official war artist Capt H H Sheldon and were reproduced in the 1946 published book - The Royal Indian Air Force at War - An account of air operations in South East Asia.
Gp Capt C G I Philip's Collection - This album features various photographs from 1944-45 when the Squadron converted to the Supermarine Spitfire - the first Indian Air Force Squadron to do so.
Capt M Balan Collection - When No.4 Squadron was operating from Miho in Japan, it had on strength eighteen Spitfire XIVs and a single Harvard. This album has photograph of the aircraft being operated in Japan
At the outbreak of the War, the IAF had a strength of 16 Officers and 144 Ranks. Only one Squadron was operational and all training was undertaken by units in the UK. But the outbreak of the war put a strain on UK's training requirements and also to cater
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