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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian Air Force officer}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}<br /> {{More footnotes needed|date=November 2021}}<br /> [[Air commodore|Air Commodore]] &#039;&#039;&#039;Jagdev Chandra&#039;&#039;&#039;, ([[Punjabi people|Punjabi]]) (6 October 1916 &amp;ndash; 19 Apr 1991), Royal Indian Air force and later one of the first recruits of [[Indian Air Force]], was a war veteran, served with excellence in Burma during [[World War II]]. Was born in [[Peshawar]], to a Punjabi family of repute, father a doctor and brother, the popular [[politician]] and Gandhian Jag Pravesh Chandra. He quit medical school to join [[JRD Tata|J.R.D Tata]] as one of his first few students in flying. He joined the Royal Indian Air Force and was commissioned on 1 August 1940. He served as [[squadron leader]] and CO of the [[No. 4 Squadron RAF|No.4 Squadron]].<br /> <br /> He is survived by wife Late Kanta Chandra and his two children, son Dr. Rajiv Chandra, and daughter Rashmi Solanki.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> * {{cite web|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/Record/view.php?srnum=1612|title=Bharat Rakshak Home}}<br /> * {{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711044057/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Digby02.html|title=In the land of the Mikado}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Chandra, Jagdev}}<br /> [[Category:Indian Air Force officers]]<br /> [[Category:1991 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:1916 births]]<br /> [[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{aviation-bio-stub}}<br /> {{india-mil-bio-stub}}</div>

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