Ajjamada B. Devaiah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian Air Force officer
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Place of Birth: Kodagu district, Karnataka, India
About Ajjamada B. Devaiah
- Ajjamada Boppayya Devayya is the only Air Force Officer to be posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC).
- The Maha Vir Chakra is the second highest wartime gallantry award and is less in precedence only to the Param Vir Chakra.
- During the 1965 India-Pakistan War, Sqn Ldr A B Devayya (called 'Wings of Fire') was part of a strike mission (on the Pakistani airbase Sargodha) when he was attacked by an enemy aircraft.
- He shot down the enemy pursuer's plane but in the process his aircraft was damaged and he went missing.
- Presumably he died in Pakistani territory.
- 23 years later, in 1988, he was posthumously awarded the retrospective MVC award for this feat in the 1965 conflict.
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