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Muhammad Mahmood Alam

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Muhammad Mahmood Alam  ( Urdu :  محمد محمود عالم ‎,  Bengali :  মোহাম্মদ মাহমূদ আলম ) (known as  M.M.  Muhammad Mahmood Alam محمد محمود عالم Muhammad Mahmood Alam in 2010 Nickname(s) Little Dragon Born 6 July 1935 Calcutta ,  British India Died 18 March 2013 (aged 77) Karachi , Pakistan Allegiance   Pakistan Service/branch   Pakistan Air Force Years of service 1960–1982 Rank   Air commodore  ( Brigadier-General ) Unit No. 11 Squadron Arrows  (1965) [1] No. 5 Squadron Falcons Battles/wars Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Soviet War in Afghanistan Awards Sitara-e-Jurat  and  Bar [ citation needed ] Alam ; 6 July 1935 – 18 March 2013) was [2] a Pakistani fighter pilot, an  F-86 Sabre   flying ace  and  one-star general who served with the  Pakistan Air Force . Squadron Leader Muhammad Mahmud Alam, Commander of No 11 Squadron, was already a notable leader and high...

MM Alam’s record of shooting down 5 Indian war planes remains unbroken.

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SLAMABAD (APP) – The record of Pakistan’s 1965 legendary war hero MM Alam vis-à-vis shooting down five Indian war planes in less than a minute still remains unbroken. Alam, popularly known as MM Alam, while piloting an F-86 Sabre, shot down five Indian war planes in less than a minute during 1965 Pak-India war and altogether, downed nine war planes in the aerial fighting. Late MM Alam was the first ever honoured fighter pilot for PAF, listed on top in the hall of fame list at the PAF Museum in Karachi. Alam is considered a national hero for Pakistan, most significantly, for his remarkable show of brilliance in the war of 1965 he was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat (“The star of courage”) and also the BAR medal. The war hero was born on July 6, 1935, in Calcutta, India and was the eldest of 11 siblings. No one in his family before him had been part of the military, and in fact, he joined the armed forces against his father’s will. In 1965 when India started war in the late mi...

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