Nur Khan

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Malik Nur Khan Awan (22 February 1923 — 15 December 2011) known as the Man of Steel, The Man With The Midas Touch, and informally, Nuroo, was a three-star rank officer who led the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in the Indo-Pakistani air war of 1965, a politician, sports administrator, and airline executive, who served as the third Commander-in-Chief of the PAF from 1965 to 1969 and sixth Governor of West Pakistan from 1969 to 1970. Born in the village of Tamman, Khan graduated from Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College where he gained fame for his boxing skills and joined the Indian Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940. He was commissioned into the Royal Indian Air Force at the age of 17 as a fighter pilot in 1941. He also trained with the Royal Air Force as a gunner and bomber pilot. He was later deployed to Burma and flew sorties against Imperial Japan in World War II. In May 1944, he conducted a dive-bombing mission on a bridge at the Arakan front. After the Partition of British India...

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