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It was on September 10, during the early days of the 1965 war with Pakistan that Flying Officer Dara Phiroze Chinoy found himself in trouble. He had been commissioned in the Indian Air Force (IAF) just two-and-a-half years earlier. His unit was targeting a Pakistani artillery position just across the border in Pakistani Punjab. Pakistan was not letting the Indian army cross the Ichhogil canal and he was part of the group of Flying Officers who had been given orders to destroy one of these targets, Chinoy narrated in a series of conversations over the telephone from his home in......