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- ↑ The Westland Lysander II in Indian Air Force Service Archived 15 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "No. 104 (GR) Squadron, Indian Air Force". Archived from the original on 16 January 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2008.
- ↑ Air Historical Branch, 'The Campaigns in the Far East,' Appendix 2, n.d.
- ↑ Air Historical Branch, 'The Campaigns in the Far East,' Appendix 2, n.d.
- ↑ Scholefield 1998, p. 49.
- ↑ Rawlings 1982, p. 239.
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