Among the gallantry awards given to IAF personnel for the 1947-48 Operations, only one out of…
Category: History
History is the study of the past, it relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. History is about the truth, and it is about recording events and memories before they are consigned to be forgotten. Presented here in these sections is the History of the Indian Air Force. The unvarnished, un-revised version that is independent of jingoism and ultra-nationalism.
Inside Occupied Kashmir
P.N. Sharma was a reporter for the well known weekly magazine the BLITZ being published from…
Operation Poonching
The story of No.12 Squadron's effort to save Poonch, including the effort to airlift the 25…
An Overview of the RIAF in the Kashmir Ops
The Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) went into action shortly after Independence in 1947. It was…
The day the PAF got away
In war, much often hangs on a knife-edge. As this piece by Air Marshal Raghavendran shows,…
Flying Officer Kartar Singh Saund – 2 Squadron
Kartar Singh Saund (IND/1664 was commissioned into the Indian Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1941. He…
Wing Commander Harish Chandar Sahgal (3024) GD(P)
This article narrates the career of Wg Cdr "Horace" Sahgal, commissioned just towards the end of…
No.4 Squadron – Flying Toofanis at Hasimara
Group Captain Gurdeep Singh Samra contributes several photos to illustrate the Toofani days of No.4 Squadrons…
The Relief of Leh
It is somewhat ironic that in 1999 we should be fighting to relieve pressure on the…