Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, PVC (17 July 1945 - 14 December 1971), an officer of the Indian Air Force, was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, in recognition of his lone defence of Srinagar Air Base against a PAF air raid during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

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