Wings of Duty

Wings of Duty — Page ix

Foreword These beautiful memories from a far removed time were written in a sleepy sun-room at my home in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a place where my father loved to lounge, read and write and where he spent several summers overlooking our backyard in all of its leafy splendour. It has been my honour and privilege to have enjoyed my father’s company and to have played a small role in urging him to record those parts of his life that we, his children, have come to cherish over the years. These memoirs shed light on the various challenges faced by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during the Partition years, the strength and incredible foresight shown by Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II ra during this period, the perseverance and fortitude of everyday Ahmadis and of course the numerous aviation adventures that the community found itself thrust into during the departure of the British from India and the largest mass migration in human history that followed it.