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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)
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 ...
Prior to World War II, the Indian Ocean was an important maritime trade route between European nations and their colonial territories in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, British India, Indochina, the East Indies (Indonesia), and Australia for a long time. Naval presence was dominated by the Royal Navy Eastern Fleet and the Royal Australian ...
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...