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During the Second World War (1939–1945), India was a part of the British Empire. British India officially declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939. [ 1] India, as a part of the Allied Nations, sent over two and a half million soldiers to fight under British command against the Axis powers. India was also used as the base for American ...
The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, [ 1] began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men. [ 2] By the end of the war, it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945. [ 2][ 3] Serving in divisions of infantry, armour and a ...
The Indian Legion ( German: Indische Legion ), officially the Free India Legion ( German: Legion Freies Indien) or 950th (Indian) Infantry Regiment ( German: Infanterie-Regiment 950 (indisches) ), was a military unit raised during the Second World War initially as part of the German Army and later the Waffen-SS from August 1944.
Indian women at the time did not mix socially or at work with men and a large part of the corps was formed from the mixed-race Anglo–Indian community. [8] The WAC(I) had an autonomous Air Wing, which served as the Indian counterpart of the WAAF: the women operated switchboards and similar duties at airfields and air headquarters (AHQ).
Antony Brett-James. Alexander Brewer. Ben Brocklehurst. Arthur Budgett. Noël Louis St Pierre Bunbury. Bahadur Singh of Bundi. Hugh Burden. Burhan-ud-Din (Indian National Army officer) Anthony Burke (cricketer)
The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma. It was part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and primarily involved forces of the Allies (mainly from the British Empire and the Republic of China, with support from the United States) against the invading forces of the Empire of Japan.
Battle of Imphal. ( Meitei: Japan Laan[ 1][ 2]) Part of the Operation U-Go during the Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. Gurkhas advancing with Grant tanks to clear the Japanese from Imphal-Kohima road in North Eastern British India. Date. 8 March – 3 July 1944. Location.
Mentioned in Despatches. Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage ...