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Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas, AC (9 September 1924 – 1 September 1957) was an Officer in the Indian Air Force who was the first Air Force Officer to be awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military award, in the year of 1953.[1]

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  1. 14 relations: Ashoka Chakra (military decoration), Bengalis, Christians, Flight lieutenant, Indian Air Force, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, New Delhi, Nilgiri Mountains, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Royal Indian Air Force, Sandila, West Bengal.

  2. Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in India
  3. Military personnel from Kolkata

Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)

The Ashoka Chakra (alternative spelling: Ashok Chakra) is India's highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valor, courageous action, or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra (PVC) and is awarded for the "most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valour or self-sacrifice" other than in the face of the enemy. Suhas Biswas and Ashoka Chakra (military decoration) are Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration).

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Flight lieutenant

Flight lieutenant (Flt Lt or F/L) is a junior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.

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Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.

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Mangalore

Mangalore, officially known as Mangalururomanized: Maikala)-->, is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 14 km north of Karnataka–Kerala border and 297 km south of Goa.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Nilgiri Mountains

The Nilgiri Mountains form a part of the Western Ghats in northwestern Tamil Nadu, southern Karnataka and eastern Kerala in South India.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Royal Indian Air Force

The Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) was the aerial force of British India and later the Dominion of India.

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Sandila

Sandila is a town and nagar palika parishad in Hardoi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.

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See also

Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in India

Military personnel from Kolkata

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhas_Biswas