AWARDED D.F.C.
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, July 11. Lord Louis Mountbatten pinned the Distinguished Flying Cross on the tunic of Squadron-leader Arjun Singh when he visited the Imphal front recently, thus decorating the first Indian pilot in the field, according to an Allahabad message. Sipeaking from the wing of a Hurricane, the Commander-in-Chief congratulated the airmen on the magnificent work they had done in the reopening of the Kohima-Imphal road.
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Evening Star, Issue 25225, 12 July 1944, Page 6
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