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| honorific_prefix = [[Wing Commander]]
| name = Jag Mohan Nath
| honorific_suffix = [[Maha Vir Chakra|MVC]] & Bar
| image = Wing Commander JM Nath.jpg
| caption = Nath had 3275 flying hours<ref name=":ServiceRecord">{{cite web |title=Service Record: Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath |url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/3946 |website=Bharat Rakshak |access-date=15 February 2021 |ref=service record}}</ref>
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| nickname = Jaggi,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Arpi|first=Claude|author-link=Claude Arpi|date=30 January 2020|title=Wrong person at wrong time|url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/columnists/wrong-person-at-wrong-time.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-15|website=The Pioneer|language=en}}</ref> Professor<ref name=":0" />
| allegiance = {{flagcountry|India}}
| branch = {{air force|India}}
| serviceyears = 1948 - 1969
| rank = [[File:Wing_Commander_of_IAF.png|20px]] Wing Commander
| servicenumber = 3946 GD(P)<ref name=":ServiceRecord" />
| unit = No.106 Squadron<ref name=":ServiceRecord" />
| battles = {{plainlist|
*[[Sino-Indian War]]
*[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]
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| awards = [[File:Maha_Vir_Chakra_ribbon.svg|35px]] [[Maha Vir Chakra]] & Bar
}}

[[Wing Commander]] '''Jag Mohan Nath''' {{Post-nominals|country=IND|MVC}}, was an [[Indian Air Force]] officer . He is the first of the six officers to have been decorated with the [[Maha Vir Chakra]], India's second highest war time military decoration, twice. He was decorated for his operations in the [[Sino-Indian War]] of 1962 and [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]].<ref name="TH">{{cite web|last=Srinivasan|first=Pankaja|date=6 September 2015|title=The pilot who 'shot' Pakistan|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-pilot-who-shot-pakistan/article7620308.ece|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917034448/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-pilot-who-shot-pakistan/article7620308.ece|archivedate=17 September 2015|accessdate=10 February 2017|work=The Hindu}}</ref>

==Early life==
Jag Mohan Nath was born in [[Layyah]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj|British India]] (now in [[Pakistan]]) in a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Saraiki people|Hindu]] family of doctors. He served in the Air Force from 1948 to 1969, before taking up a position in [[Air India]].<ref name="TH" />

==Military career==
He joined the [[Air Force Administrative College]] in [[Coimbatore]] in 1948. He was first awarded the Maha Vir Chakra for his role in reconnaissance missions in [[Aksai Chin]] and [[Tibet]], before and during the 1962 war. His missions proved useful in learning about the Chinese military build-up in Aksai Chin. He flew around 30 reconnaissance missions into Pakistan during the 1965 war in an [[English Electric Canberra]], which earned him his second Maha Vir Chakra.<ref name="TH" /><ref name="IAF">{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Squadron Leader Jag Mohan Nath (3946) MVC|url=http://www.indianairforce.nic.in/show_page.php?pg_id=314|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823114259/http://indianairforce.nic.in/show_page.php?pg_id=314|archivedate=23 August 2016|accessdate=10 February 2017|website=|publisher=Indian Air Force}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Pal|first=Snchari|date=2018-01-22|title=The Story of The Only Living IAF Veteran To Get The Maha Vir Chakra Twice!|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/128461/jag-mohan-nath-iaf-veteran-china-pakistan-maha-vir-chakra/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-15|website=The Better India|language=en-US}}</ref> He would go over Pakistani territory including [[Lahore]], [[Icchogil Canal|Icchogil canal]] and [[Sargodha|Sargoda]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Purohit|first=Jugal R.|date=21 September 2015|title=1965 war hero 'Professor' reveals top IAF officer a Pak mole who bled India|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/1965-war-hero-professor-reveals-top-iaf-officer-a-pak-mole-who-bled-india-264120-2015-09-21|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-15|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> In eastern Ladakh, Nath would fly into Chinese occupied territory. He had stated in an interview that "the Chinese could see me clearly and even fired at my aircraft," but other than that could do little as the Chinese did not have an air force at the time.<ref name=":1" />

==Controversy==
In an interview, Wing Commander Nath claimed that a [[Mole (espionage)|mole]] was detected in the Indian Air Force's Western Command during the 1965 war. The mole was a group captain handling flight movements in the Western Command, though he declined to name the person as he was already dead.<ref name="TOI">{{cite web|last=|first=|date=22 September 2015|title=Mole in IAF helped Pak plan attack: 1965 war hero|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mole-in-IAF-helped-Pak-plan-attack-1965-war-hero/articleshow/49053214.cms|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212043831/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mole-in-IAF-helped-Pak-plan-attack-1965-war-hero/articleshow/49053214.cms|archivedate=12 February 2017|accessdate=10 February 2017|work=The Times of India}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Military personnel from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian military personnel]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Maha Vir Chakra]]
[[Category:Reconnaissance pilots]]

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