Baba Mehar Singh - Sikhs The Supreme

An all time most extraordinary Fighter Pilot in the world Air Commodore Baba Mehar Singh DSO, MVC, whose statue, titled “Saviour of Ladakh” was installed near the Leh Airport on June 20, 2008. He was the ONLY DSO in the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) and FIRST recipient of MVC in Indian Air Force in independent India. Many liked not only to compare this daredevil pilot with Lord Montgomery of W.W.-II fame in the operational role but to keep him above in taking risks and accepting challenges, who flying over mountains and peaks from 15000 ft. to 24000 ft, with minimal navigation tools and cartographic aids, landed his Dakota at the highest altitude in the world on a dry river bed without even the apology of an airstrip on May 24, 1948, thus converting impossible into possible. Never before any plane had landed or flown over Leh. This legendary flight led to retention of LEH The Mighty Sikhs / 342 with India and first world record of landing any plane at the highest altitude in the world. After this he kept on carrying out a bombing cum-supply mission by Dakota, sheer a supply aircraft risking his life, which was termed a “sheer suicide” by Gen. Russial, the then our Army Chief. This “Dangerous Commitment” not only enabled the army to sustain Poonchh but contributed immensely to the ultimate victory over Pakistan. Baba Mehar Singh was declared as one of the most celebrated fighter pilots of WW-II and pride of any Air Force in the world.

In the main Bazar of Leh, there is a tree said to be planted by Guru Nanak, which has miraculous powers. Stories abound about the tree, once the tallest in Leh. An inscription there says, “Sacred Tree” known as Datun Sahib is everlasting memory of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, (Rimpoche Lama) the great prophet who sanctified this place by his sacred visit during the year 1517 while on his second missionary tour (2nd Udassi 1515-1518). Guru Nanak put a Datun (Miswak) here, which became a huge tree in Ladakh area where there was no tree at that time. This sacred tree is well known among our Muslim and Budhist brethren for its sacredness, and they revere it.

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