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No. 1 Squadron IAF. Battles/wars. World War II. Awards. Bar to Distinguished Flying Cross. Distinguished Flying Cross. Wing Commander Karun Krishna 'Jumbo' Majumdar, DFC & bar (6 September 1913 – 17 February 1945) was an officer in the Indian Air Force. He was the first Indian to reach the rank of wing commander.
Pilot Officer Thyagarajan, an Indian pilot is seated on the engine cowling Karun Krishna "Jumbo" Majumdar was the first Indian officer to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. 83 Squadron aircrew in front of their Lancaster R5868 , Squadron Leader Shailendra Eknath Sukthankar, an Indian Navigator stands in the middle.
In June 1941, Mukerjee handed over command of No. 1 Squadron to Squadron Leader Karun Krishna Majumdar. He was selected to attend the Staff College, Quetta. Due to the war, the staff course was reduced to a duration of six months. [11] By this time, No. 1 Squadron had moved to Secunderabad and was re-equipped with the Westland Lysander. [12]
Karun Krishna Majumdar, the first Indian to reach the rank of Wing Commander, was awarded the DFC & bar. Arjan Singh (future Marshal of the Indian Air Force), Pratap Chandra Lal (future chief of the IAF during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971), and Ramaswamy Rajaram (future VCAS, IAF) were awarded the DFC in Burma.
Meaning. Record Keeper, Archivist, Treasurer, Accountant. Region of origin. Bengal. Other names. Variant form (s) numerous. [1] Majumdar (Bengali: মজুমদার) is a native Bengali surname that is used by both the Bengali Hindu and Bengali Muslim community of Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and as well as of Bangladesh.
Communism portal. v. t. e. The Historic Eight Documents are a set of eight monographs authored by the Indian Maoist revolutionary Charu Majumdar that outline the ideological principles on which the Naxalite militant communist movement in India was based. [ 1][ 2] They laid down the idea that the Indian State was a bourgeois institution and that ...
Majumdar considers Krishnavarma's rule as somewhat obscure due to lack of his inscriptions though the records issued by his sons credit him with efficient administration and an ashvamedha (horse sacrifice). It is known that he possibly lost his life in battle with the Pallavas.
While he was a student, he received an 'A' flying license from the Karachi flying club. He was part of the third batch of Indian pilots sent to RAF College Cranwell in early 1932; Karun Krishna Majumdar was one of the other two in the batch. Military career. Narendra was commissioned on 16 December 1933 as a pilot officer.