Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh
Sekhon, PVC (17 July 1945 – 14 December 1971) was an officer of the Indian Air Force. He was
posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration, in recognition of
his lone defence of Srinagar Air Base against a Pakistani air raid during the Indo-Pakistani War of
1971. He is the only member of the Indian Air Force
to be so honoured.
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