Pilot Officer Phillipos - Accounts Branch Officer in WW2
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- Category: Veterans Project - Interviews, Profiles and Memoirs
- Written by Wg Cdr A Phillipos
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Wg Cdr A Phillipos 3033 GD(P) was commissioned as an Accounts Branch Officer in 1944. He recently turned 100 years old and was felicitated by the Air Force Records Office in Bangalore. In this short article, he writes about his introduction to service life under the British.
The Sky is the Limit - Wg Cdr Murkot Ramunny
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- 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
Baptism by sparks, fire and bailout
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- Category: War and Peace - 1962 -71
- Written by Wg Cdr A K Gupta
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Wg Cdr A K "Lui" Gupta, 13072 F(P) joined the caterpillar club on his very second solo flight in a Vampire Jet fighter. This is the story of possibly the last bailout from a Vampire.
Sentinels in the Sky
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- Category: Reviews
- Written by Colonel Azam Qadri
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Reviewed by Jagan Pillarisetti
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Pilot Officer Hukum Chand Mehta
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- Category: Veterans Project - Interviews, Profiles and Memoirs
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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.
Fighter Pilot
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- Written by Helen Doe
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Reviewed by Jagan Pillarisetti
Spitfires in the Sun
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- Written by Air Commodore Vikram Singh
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Reviewed by Air Marshal S G Inamdar (Retd)
Wg Cdr C H L Digby
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- Written by K S Nair
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Remembering Wg Cdr Cecil H L Digby (5 Sept 1925 - 5 Nov 2015)
The Indian Air Force Act, 1932 (Act No. XIV of 1932)
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- Category: Birth of an Air Force
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Every history starts with the words "The Indian Air Force was officially established by the Indian Air Force Act as notified in the Gazette of India dated 8th October 1932...", but has anyone actually seen the IAF Act of 1932 that was passed by the Indian Legislature in April 1932? To which the Governor General of India gave his assent on 8th April 1932? .. the same act which was subsequently published in the Gazette on 8th October?
Well here it is --- as it was originally introduced and later passed by the Legislature into the "Indian Air Force Act, 1932"
