The best site on the (R)IAF during the war (if the information isn't here then you'll probably won't find it anywhere else on the web):
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Hi...40s/index.html
Just a couple of the hundreds of pictures on the site - so well worth a visit (and Jagan, the site owner is very knowledgeable and helpful):
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8th October 1940: A policeman shakes hands with a group of Indian pilots, MS Pujji is 2nd from Right. The Sikh shaking hands could be 'Chacha' Manmohan Singh
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Sgt Sayanapuram Duraiswamy Thyagarajan (Center) with No 263 Squadron, RAF, Whirlwind P7094 HE-T . The CO Flt Lt Geofferey B Warnes is second left and the Adjutant , F/L EC Owens is at first left . Other pilots in the Squadron are Canadian, Austarlian and West Indian.The sqn converted to Typhoons in Feb 44. Later promoted to Pilot Officer (177663 RAF), Thyagarajan was shot down and killed over France on 26th August 1944.
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