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| [[Squadron Leader]] '''Ajjamada Boppayya Devayya''' MVC is the only [[Indian Air Force]] officer to be posthumously awarded the [[Maha Vir Chakra]] (MVC). The Maha Vir Chakra is the second highest wartime gallantry award, behind only to the [[Param Vir Chakra]]. During the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|1965 India-Pakistan War]], Devayya (called 'Wings of Fire') was part of a strike mission targeting the Pakistani airbase [[Sargodha]] when he was attacked by an enemy aircraft. He shot down the enemy pursuer's plane but in the process his aircraft was damaged and he went missing. Presumably he died in Pakistani territory. Twenty-three years later, in 1988, he was posthumously awarded the MVC award.<ref name = "IAF MVC">{{cite web|title=Maha Vir Chakra awards (IAF)|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Awards/Gallantry/302-MVC.html|publisher=Bharat Rakshak (Indian Armed Forces)|accessdate=22 June 2014|archive-date=10 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2014071...Awards/Gallantry/302-MVC.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name = "1988 MVC">{{cite web|title=Maha Vir Chakra awards (1988)|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/Awards/awards.php?qyear=1988|publisher=Bharat Rakshak (Indian Armed Forces)|accessdate=22 June 2014}}</ref> | [[Squadron Leader]] '''Ajjamada Boppayya Devayya''' [[Maha Vir Chakra|MVC]] is the only [[Indian Air Force]] officer to be posthumously awarded the [[Maha Vir Chakra]] (MVC). The Maha Vir Chakra is the second highest wartime gallantry award, below only to the [[Param Vir Chakra]]. During the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|1965 India-Pakistan War]], Devayya (called 'Wings of Fire') was part of a strike mission targeting the Pakistani airbase [[Sargodha]] when he was attacked by an enemy aircraft. He shot down the enemy pursuer's plane but in the process his aircraft was damaged and he went missing. Presumably he died in Pakistani territory. Twenty-three years later, in 1988, he was posthumously awarded the MVC award.<ref name = "IAF MVC">{{cite web|title=Maha Vir Chakra awards (IAF)|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Awards/Gallantry/302-MVC.html|publisher=Bharat Rakshak (Indian Armed Forces)|accessdate=22 June 2014|archive-date=10 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2014071...Awards/Gallantry/302-MVC.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name = "1988 MVC">{{cite web|title=Maha Vir Chakra awards (1988)|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/Awards/awards.php?qyear=1988|publisher=Bharat Rakshak (Indian Armed Forces)|accessdate=22 June 2014}}</ref> |
| ==Biography== | ==Biography== |
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