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Indian POWs in Derna, Libya, 1941.. The first troops of the Indian Legion were recruited from Indian POWs captured at El Mekili, Libya during the battles for Tobruk.The German forces in the Western Desert selected a core group of 27 POWs as potential officers and they were flown to Berlin in May 1941, to be followed, after the Centro I experiment, by POWs being transferred from the Italian ...
Battaglione Azad Hindoustan (in Italian: Battaglione India libera - "Free India Battalion") was a foreign legion unit formed in Fascist Italy under the Raggruppamento Centri Militari in July 1942. The unit, raised initially as Centro I , was headed by Mohammad Iqbal Shedai [ 2 ] – a long term Indian resident of Rome – and was formed of ...
India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia (2016). wide-ranging scholarly survey excerpt; Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence (1999) detailed scholarly history of 1940–47; Roy, Kaushik. "Military Loyalty in the Colonial Context: A Case Study of the Indian Army during World ...
Indian POWs liberated from Japanese camp in New Britain, PNG. World War II cost the lives of over 87,000 soldiers, air crews and mariners from the Indian Empire, [101] This included 24,338 killed and 11,754 missing in action. [131] the overwhelming majority being members of the Indian Army. Another 34,354 more were wounded, [101]
Officers and soldiers of the Indian Army wear cap badges (metallic or embroidered badges) on their beret or peaked caps. The design is based on the regimental insignia or coat of arms. The infantry and the armoured corp regiments wear the unit insignia of their individual regiments.
The Army Aviation Corps units are designated as 'Squadrons'. Each squadron generally consists of two Reconnaissance (Recce) and Observation Flights. R & O Flights might be part of squadrons or operate independently and do not have a parent squadron (designated by an (I) in their name).
The second highest military decoration by the awarded by the Azad Hind Government was the Sardar-e-Jung (Leader of Battle), which was a 1st Class Star. The award was a Badge, and could be conferred with swords for valour in combat, and without swords for non-combat awards.
The Battles and Operations involving the Indian National Army during World War II were all fought in the South-East Asian theatre.These ranges from the earliest deployments of the INA's preceding units in espionage during Malayan Campaign in 1942, through the more substantial commitments during the Japanese Ha Go and U Go offensives in the Upper Burma and Manipur region, to the defensive ...