MM Alam

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Muhammad Mahmood Alam (6 July 1935 — 18 March 2013) best known as M. M. Alam and affectionately nicknamed Little Dragon and Peanut Alam, was a Pakistani flying ace, war hero, and a former one-star rank officer in the Pakistan Air Force. Born in Calcutta, Alam became interested in aviation after witnessing RAF pilots defend his hometown during World War II. During the 1946 Bihar riots, he killed someone in act of self defence at the age of 11. He supported the Pakistan Movement and moved to East Bengal after the Partition in 1947. He joined the RPAF College in 1952 and was commissioned into the Air Force in 1953. Thereafter, he was attached to its first jet unit, the No. 11 Sqn, where he eventually became the top-scorer of the Air Force in air-to-air gunnery competitions. Patrolling over Sargodha during the Indo-Pakistani air war of 1965 on 7 September, Squadron Leader Alam set a world combat record of shooting down five Indian Hawker Hunters with his F-86 Sabre in less than a minute which...

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