By Adnan Rafique
ISLAMABAD: The ‘1965 War Hero’ Muhammad Mahmood Alam, popularly known as M M Alam was remembered (Wednesday) on his seventh death anniversary. Legendary war hero MM Alam’s record of shooting down five Indian war planes in less than a minute remains unbeaten.
Alam, nicknamed as ‘Little Dragon’ popularly, 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. MM Alam was the first ever fighter pilot for PAF, listed on top in the hall of famers list at the PAF Museum in Karachi. Alam is considered as 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’ and also the BAR medal, PTV/private news channels reported.
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.
