Tribute to Marshal of Indian Air Force Arjan Singh on 102nd Birth anniversary Marshal Arjan Singh, the Indian Air Force commander during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, died on September 16, 2017, at the age of 98. Singh was the first officer in the Indian Air Force to be promoted to the rank of five-star general, which is equivalent to a field marshal in the Army. During the Arakan Campaign in 1944, Arjan Singh led the squadron against the Japanese. Providing close air support during the critical Imphal Campaign, as well as assisting the allied forces’ advance to Rangoon, Burma. Arjan