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Lloyd Moses Sassoon (Kandlekar) (Flt. Lt) (1942-1971), pilot with then rank of Flt. Lt. in the Indian Air Force, born to Mozelle and Moses Sassoon Kandlekar on July 15, 1942 in Bombay (now Mumbay), India. His father was a Chief Engineer of the Bombay Region in the Bombay Port Trust Authority. Being from a well established family, Sassoon attended St. Mary’s High School in Mazagon, Bombay, a prestigious Catholic Missionary School. Upon matriculation he studied up to the Inter-Science Level at K.C. College Churchgate in Bombay.

He then applied for and was selected as a cadet at the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakvasla, Deolali, Maharashtra, India in 1962. Upon completion of his officer’s Course at the NDA in 1965, he proceeded for his pilot’s training at the Indian Air Force flight training center in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Sassoon rapidly rose from Pilot Officer to Flt Lt. and was trained to be a Fighter/Bomber pilot. His last posting was to the 5th Squadron-Canberra Bombers. This was a very reputed and prestigious squadron and one of the coveted units of the Indian Air Force. Between the years 1967 to 1969 he saw service in Madras (Now Chennai) and Agra. In 1969 his squadron was posted to Ambala.

On 27 Nov 1966 Lloyd Sassoon married Sybia, daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Jacob Kasukar. Two sons were born to them, Dov (b. Nov 17, 1968) and David (b. Dec. 19, 1970).

In The India Pakistan war; which ultimately resulted in the establishment of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), Sassoon fought on the western front against West Pakistan. On one of the sorties on Dec. 4, 1971, his Canberra bomber was shot down near Lahore, Pakistan. It should be noted that the Canberra bomber had a crew of two persons, a pilot and a navigator. The pilot had a parachute and the navigator did not have a parachute. When the plane was shot down the foregone conclusion was that the navigator was killed. During the war the Pakistani Government did parade some captured Indian pilots on television and many in India remember seeing Flt Lt. Lloyd Sassoon. But at the end of the war the Indian government declared Sassoon as missing in action and the Pakistani government claimed that Lloyd was killed when his plane crashed. Discrete inquiries through friends in senior positions in the Pakistani Air Force claim that he was brutally murdered by the local inhabitants (not officially confirmed or verified) when his plane was shot down near Lahore.

In 1974 his widow and her sons immigrated to Israel. Lloyd has a brother Norman, a captain in the merchant navy residing in Bombay, India

Years later the Indian casualties of the India-Pakistan wars from 1947 to 1999 were honored by the Indian Air Force and the Government of India and their names were inscribed on a monument in New Delhi on Nov. 27, 1999. The government of India invited the families of the fallen soldiers to this ceremony and presented them with mementoes.

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Lloyd Moses Sassoon (Kandlekar) (Flt. Lt) (1942-1971), pilot with then rank of Flt. Lt. in the Indian Air Force, born to Mozelle and Moses Sassoon Kandlekar on July 15, 1942 in Bombay (now Mumbay), India. His father was a Chief Engineer of the Bombay Region in the Bombay Port Trust Authority. Being from a well established family, Sassoon attended St. Mary’s High School in Mazagon, Bombay, a prestigious Catholic Missionary School. Upon matriculation he studied up to the Inter-Science Level at K.C. College Churchgate in Bombay.

He then applied for and was selected as a cadet at the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakvasla, Deolali, Maharashtra, India in 1962. Upon completion of his officer’s Course at the NDA in 1965, he proceeded for his pilot’s training at the Indian Air Force flight training center in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Sassoon rapidly rose from Pilot Officer to Flt Lt. and was trained to be a Fighter/Bomber pilot. His last posting was to the 5th Squadron-Canberra Bombers. This was a very reputed and prestigious squadron and one of the coveted units of the Indian Air Force. Between the years 1967 to 1969 he saw service in Madras (Now Chennai) and Agra. In 1969 his squadron was posted to Ambala.

On 27 Nov 1966 Lloyd Sassoon married Sybia, daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Jacob Kasukar. Two sons were born to them, Dov (b. Nov 17, 1968) and David (b. Dec. 19, 1970).

In The India Pakistan war; which ultimately resulted in the establishment of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), Sassoon fought on the western front against West Pakistan. On one of the sorties on Dec. 4, 1971, his Canberra bomber was shot down near Lahore, Pakistan. It should be noted that the Canberra bomber had a crew of two persons, a pilot and a navigator. The pilot had a parachute and the navigator did not have a parachute. When the plane was shot down the foregone conclusion was that the navigator was killed. During the war the Pakistani Government did parade some captured Indian pilots on television and many in India remember seeing Flt Lt. Lloyd Sassoon. But at the end of the war the Indian government declared Sassoon as missing in action and the Pakistani government claimed that Lloyd was killed when his plane crashed. Discrete inquiries through friends in senior positions in the Pakistani Air Force claim that he was brutally murdered by the local inhabitants (not officially confirmed or verified) when his plane was shot down near Lahore.

In 1974 his widow and her sons immigrated to Israel. Lloyd has a brother Norman, a captain in the merchant navy residing in Bombay, India

Years later the Indian casualties of the India-Pakistan wars from 1947 to 1999 were honored by the Indian Air Force and the Government of India and their names were inscribed on a monument in New Delhi on Nov. 27, 1999. The government of India invited the families of the fallen soldiers to this ceremony and presented them with mementoes.

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