Minoo Merwan Engineer

Air Marshal Minoo Merwan Engineer (1921–1997) was one of the most decorated officers of Indian Air Force, and the younger brother of 1960-1964 IAF Chief (and Indian Ambassador to Iran) Aspy Engineer. He joined Royal Indian Air Force in 1940 and served in Burma in the world war.He was awarded the DFC for his part in the Arakan operations. Later in 1948 he served in Jammu and Kashmir front. He was Station Commander of Srinagar Airfield then. He was awarded Mahavir Chakra for his services there. He was made Air Marshall in 1964 and appointed as AOC-in chief of Eastern Air Command. For his services in the Eastern sector, he was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal. At the time of 1971 India-Pakistan War he was AOC-in Chief of Western Air Command. He was awarded Padma Bhushan for his leadership and services.^[1]

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Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–79)

1970	Ramkinkar Baij Hirabai Barodekar Buddhadeb Bosu M. R. Brahmam Amiya Chakravarty T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar Birendra Nath Ganguli Lala Hansraj Gupta Ratan Lal Joshi Gurram Jashuva Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar Kumari Kamala P. K. Kelkar M. S. Krishnan Syed Abdul Latif Bhagwantrao Mandloi Mahesh Prasad Mehray Sombhu Mitra Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya Krishnaswami Ramiah Gainedi A. Narasimha Rao Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe Surrendar Saini Viswanatha Satyanarayana Ahmed Jan Thirakwa N. M. Wagle Prem Nath Wahi Yashpal

1971	N. Ramaswami Ayyar Suraj Bhan Gokulbhai Bhatt Jaishankar Bhojak Monindra Nath Chakravarti Kandathil Mammen Cherian Jogesh Chandra De Ramrao Deshmukh Satish Dhawan Abasaheb Garware Gangubai Hangal Musiri Subramania Iyer Palghat Mani Iyer Jainendra Kumar Mangtu Ram Jaipuria Veni Shankar Jha Raj Kapoor Dhananjay Keer Amir Khan Nissar Hussain Khan Guru Kunchu Kurup R. K. Laxman Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta Ved Rattan Mohan Kedar Nath Mookerjee Santosh Kumar Mukerji Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya Kalindi Charan Panigrahi Manibhai J. Patel D. K. Pattammal Krishnarao Phulambrikar Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai Vulimiri Ramalingaswami Suresh Chandra Roy Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme Pichu Sambamoorthi Devchand Chhaganlal Shah Madan Mohan Singh Bhagwati Charan Verma Parmeshwari Lal Verma Kasturi Lal Vij

1972	Jagjit Singh Aurora Madhavrao Bagal Surinder Singh Bedi Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Gulestan Rustom Billimoria Kunhiraman Palat Candeth Ram Narayan Chakravarti Pran Nath Chhutani Yashodhara Dasappa Maheshwar Dayal Hari Chand Dewan Minoo Merwan Engineer Benoy Bhushan Ghosh Inderjit Singh Gill Mohd. Hayath Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani L. A. Krishna Iyer Sourendra Nath Kohli Jai Krishna Nilakanta Krishnan Ashwini Kumar Pran Nath Luthra Amrut V. Mody N.G. Krishna Murti T. A. Pai Vinayakrao Patwardhan Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke Kayalath Pothen Philip Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare Tapishwar Narain Raina Bharat Ram Mohinder Singh Randhawa Adya Rangacharya M. B. Ramachandra Rao A. S. Rao Sujoy Bhushan Roy Khusro Faramurz Rustamji S. S. Sahi Shantilal C. Sheth Baldev Singh Khem Karan Singh Sartaj Singh Sagat Singh Birendranath Sircar Papanasam Sivan Chandrika Prasad Srivastava M. S. Swaminathan Krishnaswami Swaminathan Bal Dattatreya Tilak Syed Husain Zaheer

1973	Om P. Bahl Chembai Gosasp Maneckji Sorabji Captain Harindranath Chattopadhyay Banarsidas Chaturvedi M. A. Muthiah Chettiar M. F. Husain Pothan Joseph N. R. Malkani Vinoo Mankad Sudhir Krishna Mukherjee Ramakant Maheshwar Muzumdar Krishnarao Shankar Pandit Pitambar Pant Vennelakanti Raghavaiah Raja Ramanna K. Sukumaran

1974	Alice Boner Camille Bulcke Ram Kumar Caroli Moti Chandra Dhirendra Nath Ganguly D. V. Gundappa V. S. Huzurbazar Chintamoni Kar Mogubai Kurdikar Jayant Pandurang Naik Habib Rahman Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy John Richardson Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan Sukhlal Sanghvi Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia Bhupati Mohan Sen Jaideva Singh Khushwant Singh Arunachala Sreenivasan Raman Viswanathan

1975	Begum Akhtar Dilbagh Singh Athwal Asima Chatterjee Madhav Sadashiv Gore Pratul Chandra Gupta P. K. Iyengar Darab Jehangir Jussawala Raj Kumar Khanna Pancheti Koteswaram Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay Kirpal Singh Narang P. Ardeshir Narielwala R. Carltonvivian Piadade Noronha Ratan Shastri

1976	Malcolm Adiseshiah Harivansh Rai Bachchan Nabakanta Barua Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi Zehra Ali Yavar Jung Mallikarjun Mansur Shri Ram Mehta Yash Pal Bhogilal Pandya Udupi Ramachandra Rao Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi Devulapalli Krishnasastri Devendra Sen C. Sivaramamurti E. C. George Sudarshan

1977	Gopinath Aman Prithvi Singh Azad Harish-Chandra Kumar Gandharva Phulrenu Guha Jagmohan Kailas Nath Kaul Yousuf Hussain Khan Chackachanveedu Krishnan Nair K. S. Narayanaswamy Paramsukh J. Pandya Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi Perugu Siva Reddy Annapurna Devi Yudhvir Singh M. N. Srinivas Thenpattinam Ponnusamy Meenakshi Sundaran

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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