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Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC (15 April 1919 – 16 September 2017) was a senior air officer of the Indian Air Force. He served as the 3rd Chief of the Air Staff from 1964 to 1969, leading the Air Force through the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
Air Force Marshal Arjan Singh, an icon of India’s military history, will always be remembered as a war hero who had successfully led a young IAF during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
Sep 16, 2017 · War hero Marshal Arjan Singh, famous for spearheading the Indian Air Force during the 1965 India-Pakistan conflict, passed away on Saturday at the Army’s Research and Referral hospital. He was 98. Singh was rushed to hospital this morning after suffering a cardiac arrest, the defence ministry said.
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Sep 17, 2017 · THE sole Marshal of the Indian Air Force, Arjan Singh, passed away at the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital on Saturday evening, hours after he had been admitted there following a cardiac arrest. He was 98.
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Sep 16, 2017 · Singh, who led the IAF during the India-Pakistan war in 1965, is considered an icon and a war hero. He was visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and chiefs of three forces in the hospital.
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Sep 16, 2017 · One of the heroes of the 1965 war with Pakistan, Arjan Singh became the chief of IAF when he was just 44. Born on 15 April 1919, in Lyalpur, now called Faisalabad, in today’s Pakistan, Singh...
India’s sole Marshal of the Indian Air Force, Arjan Singh passed away just two years short of a century in New Delhi on Saturday. Singh, was the first and the only Chief of the Air Staff to be awarded this rank, a rare honor bestowed to only two army chiefs since independence.
