Air Force veteran Wing Cmdr JM Nath, who took sorties in wars against Pakistan, China dies

Indian Air Drive veteran Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath (retd), who flew quite a few reconnaissance sorties over Tibet and Pakistan throughout wars in 1962 and 1965 died in Mumbai on Monday. He might be remembered for his beautiful sorties with Canberra plane.

Recipient of Maha Vir Chakra

The octogenarian, referred to as ‘Jaggi’ by his Air Drive colleagues, was twice the recipient of Maha Vir Chakra gallantry honour.

Six many years in the past, when he leapt into his Canberra, a twin-engine jet bomber fitted with cameras, and flew into Pakistan on a high secret mission, then Squadron Chief Jag Mohan Nath already had a Maha Vir Chakra awarded to him for his 1962 struggle operations.

He left courageous tales to encourage generations to come back

He had flown into Aksai Chin and Tibet and returned with priceless inputs on the bottom scenario and enemy troop actions there, each earlier than and through the Indo-China struggle. Three years later, in September 1965, he was awarded one other Maha Vir Chakra, this time for his function within the Indo-Pak struggle. The Maha Vir Chakra is the second highest army ornament in India, after the Param Vir Chakra, and is awarded for acts of gallantry.

The quotation of his first MVC learn as follows: As Flight Commander of an Operational Squadron, Squadron Chief Jag Mohan Nath has fulfilled a lot of hazardous operational duties involving flying over tough mountain terrain, each by day and by night time, in antagonistic climate circumstances and in full disregard of his private security. He has displayed conspicuous gallantry, a really excessive sense of responsibility and a excessive diploma {of professional} ability.

The quotation of his MVC bar talked about that he was once more the Flight Commander with the Strategic Picture Reconnaissance Squadron flying the Canberra plane.

“He led his unit a number of instances over hostile territory to acquire very important details about the enemy. The unescorted missions, which had been within the nature of reconnaissance, entailed flying lengthy distances over enemy territory and well-defended airfields and installations throughout daylight.

“Sqn Ldr Nath was totally conscious of the chance he was working on every of those missions. Nonetheless, he selected to undertake the dangerous missions himself,” the quotation mentioned.

“The knowledge gathered by him throughout his missions proved vitally vital to the Indian air effort. The missions enabled our Air Drive to assault very important enemy targets and this adversely affected enemy’s struggle effort,” it mentioned. He was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra for the data gathered by him throughout his missions which proved very important to Indian air efforts through the wars. The missions enabled IAF to assault very important enemy targets and this adversely affected the enemy’s struggle effort. Wing Commander Nath retired in 1970 and later joined Air India as a industrial pilot.

(With PTI enter)

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