An Indian Air Force senior officer, posted as an Air Attache to the Embassy of India…
Category: Indian Air Force in World War Two
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Video – Aiming High. Training in 1942
A rare documentary film made by V Shantaram about the Indian Air Force in 1942. The…
Flt Lt Haji Khan Bahadur Gulmast Khan – The oldest officer in the IAF
Read about the officer with the oldest birth date to be commissioned in the Indian Air…
Pilot Officer Phillipos – Accounts Branch Officer in WW2
Updated 03 February 2018: We regret to inform that Wg Cdr A Philipos passed away in Bengaluru…
Video – IAF Volunteer Reserve Pilots In Britain (Nov 1940)
We love making annotations to WW2 era footage that surfaces showing Indian pilots. This latest one…
The contribution of the RIAF in WW2 (in Numbers)
The IAF grew in size from 1 single squadron to ten squadrons by the end of…
I was a Japanese Prisoner of War
Towards the end of November 1944, No.2 Squadron IAF moved from Kohat to Mambur airstrip on…
Anatomy of a Tac-R Hurricane Sortie
Dedicated to Nanu Shitoley, DFC – Hurricane Pilot & My surrogate father, Hoshang Patel – Hurricane…
Fg Offr O D Agnihotri – A Profile
My father, OD Agnihotri was born in 1922. He served with the Royal Indian Air Force…
Sikh Pilots in the IAF in WW2
Sikh Pilots in the Indian Air Force in World War Two by Mr. Pushpindar Singh Excerpted…