Marshal Arjan Singh was the Chief of Air Staff when war broke out between India and Pakistan in 1965. Born on 15 April 1919, in Lyalpur, Pakistan, he was selected for the Empire Pilot training course at RAF Cranwell in 1938. After he was commissioned, he served in the North Western Frontier Province as a member of the No.1 IAF Squadron. During the Second World War, as Squadron Leader in 1944, Arjan Singh fought the [...]
The first Indian to fly into space, Rakesh Sharma was born on January 13, 1949 in Patiala, Punjab. He was a squadron leader with the Indian Air Force, when he flew into space in 1984 as part of a joint programme between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Soviet Intercosmos space program. He spent eight days in space on board the Salyut 7 space station. He joined two other Soviet cosmonauts aboard the [...]
