- 1942 AKA Sardar Manmohan Singh |
from Jack Carpenter's web site about Glenn Curtiss |
Curtiss Flying School, Class of 1912: 1. Floyd E. Barlow 2.
John G. Kaminski 3. Smith 4. W.A. Davis 5. Roy B. Russell 6. Mohan M. Singh 7. John Lansing Callan 8. Julia Clark 9. M. Dunlap 10. Kono Takeshi Curtiss Museum Photo, Callan Collection |
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The article is found on the San Diego Historical Society website in their Journal of San Diego History, Winter 1979, Volume 25, No. 1 and is entitled: The Curtiss School of Aviation By Gary F. Kurutz I found the article to be especially interesting inasmuch as my father-in-law, Walter E. Lees, graduated from the school and included many photographs and recollections of his time there in his collection of memorabilia. If you are interested, I invite you to visit his website by clicking on his name. |
"At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Man Mohan Singh joined the Indian Air Force Vounteer
Reserve as a pilot officer. He was selected leader of an Indian Air Force batch of of Fliers sent to England for training and active duty.
He was later promoted flying officer and deputed for operations in the Philippines and Indonesia and given the command of a Catalina
aircraft. Man Mohan Singh was killed in action in West Australia on 3 March 1942." |
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