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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 ...
Pages in category "Indian Army personnel killed in World War II" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Battles and Operations involving the Indian National Army during World War II were all fought in the South-East Asian theatre.These range 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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Indian Army personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 274 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
The Indian National Army (INA, sometimes Second INA; [2] Azad Hind Fauj / ˈ ɑː z ɑː ð ˈ h i n ð ˈ f ɔː dʒ /; lit. 'Free Indian Army') was a Japanese-allied and -supported armed force constituted in Southeast Asia during World War II and led by Indian anti-colonial nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose.
Indische Legion, also known as the Free India Legion or Tiger Legion, an Indian unit raised in 1941 and attached to the German Army; Latvian Legion, a formation of the Waffen-SS created in 1943 and consisting primarily of ethnic Latvians; Legion of St. George, the original name of the British Free Corps