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The first female officer of the Air Force, Dr Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, died at the age of 96

Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force, Dr Vijayalakshmi Ramanan (Retd) VSM has died on Sunday night. She was 96 years old. Vijayalakshmi was the first woman officer of the Air Force. She breathed last at her daughter's house at 8.50 pm. She was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force on August 2, 1955. She became the Wing Commander on 22 August 1972. On 28 February 1979, she retired.