| Portraits |
A series of 'Portrait' photos from Fg Offr OD Agnihotris albums of the time gives us a candid picture of the men who were involved in the operations from that time.
Not all of these are from No.2 Squadron, as you
would see, some of them are from other squadrons and units, but all have the one thing in
common - They show us the faces of the young men, barely into their 20s, proud to have
been commissioned, or having won their 'wings', fighting a war against the Japanese, not
knowing when their turn would come, day after day, without relief for so many years.
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| IND/1991 Plt Offr OD Agnihotri seen here in this hand colored portrait photo from August 1943, just after being commissioned. He is seen again on the right in a 1946 photo, proudly sporting the 1939-45 Star and Burma Star Ribbons. | IND/1738 Plt Offr Madhu Sudan Belekar was killed on 4 Jan 1943 with No.6 Squadron. | Unidentified Hurricane Pilot in full gear - Who is he? | |
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| IND/1572 Sqn Ldr Jehangir 'Jungoo' Merwan Engineer, the second eldest of the Engineer brothers. | IND/2437 Fg Offr Bhondada Bhaskara Koteshwara Rao DFC, the only pilot from No.2 Sqn given the DFC. Koteshwara Rao was later killed in an automobile accident on 23 Sept 1945. | IND/2433 Fg Offr Mervyn Ignatius D'Rosario was a course mate of Koteshwara Rao, both getting comissioned in June 43. | IND/2888 Plt Offr Shamin Ul Zafar Khan, photo marked as 'deceased 1946'. He was killed in a Hurricane crash during unauthorised low flying near Jullundhar on 16 Mar 1946 |
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| IND/2373 Fg Offr M N Mukerjee , commissioned as a Pilot in March 43. | IND/1587 Sqn Ldr Kanwar Jaswant Singh - his approach to gallantry awards "Couldn't care less!" | Fg Offr Jaffri and his wife - Possibly Anwar Mahsood Jaffri of the A & SD Branch, who went to Pakistan on partition | Fg Offr Manzur Hussain Sahebzada - dated 25 Mar 46. He was commissioned 29 Jun 42 and opted for Pakistan on partition. |