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The first person to get Param Vir Chakra
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Major Somnath Sharma
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Major Somnath Sharma was the first recipient of India's highest wartime gallantry award, Param Vir Chakra, posthumously in 1947. He died defending Srinagar airfield during Pakistani tribal invasion.