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#ShauryaStories: Remembering the hero of 1965 war - Marshal of Indian Air Force Arjan Singh
An icon of the Indian military history, Singh had led a young IAF into the 1965 war, when he was just about 44 years old.
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Updated: Jan 15, 2021, 08:32 PM IST
This year India will celebrate her 72nd Republic Day on January 26 and on this day, how can we not remember the iconic Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, who was the first officer to receive five stars.
Arjan Singh was born on April 15, 1919, in Lyalpur of undivided Punjab. He completed his education from Montgomery. In 1938 when he got selected for the Empire Pilot training course at RAF Cranwell, he was still in college and was only 19 years old. Marshal Arjan Singh died in 2017 at the age of 98.