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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 ...
Reverted to version as of 09:51, 28 June 2011 - this flag was made before in Germany the Indian flag was created - original colors are these: 16:55, 29 June 2014: 238 × 217 (191 KB) Antemister: colors like indian flag: 09:51, 28 June 2014: 238 × 217 (189 KB) MaxxL
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.
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 woman at a spinning wheel: IV: 3+3 Annas: Red: Nurse with a wounded man V: 8+12 Annas: Blue-violet: Broken chain and daggers in front of a map of British India: VI: 12 Annas + 1 Rupee: Lilac purpur: Broken chain and daggers in front of a map of British India VIII: ½ Anna: Dark yellow-green: For the Andaman and Nicobar Islands without ...
Flag of the Indian Legion, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. Throughout World War II, both the Axis and Allied sides used propaganda to sway the opinions of Indian civilians and troops, while at the same time Indian nationalists applied propaganda both within and outside India to promote the cause of Indian independence.