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| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2020 4:00 p.m. PST |
…British in World War II is so political "During the Allied invasion of Italy in early September 1943, an Indian lieutenant wrote a letter to his beloved. Here I am penning this to you in the middle of one of the biggest nights in the history of this war. Love, I am sure by the time you receive this letter you will guess correctly as to where I am. I bet you, you wouldn't like to stay here a single minute… Oh! it is terrible. Yet in the midst of this commotion, I sit here, on my own kit-bag and scribble these few lines to my love for I do not really know when I will get the next opportunity to write to you. The lieutenant formed part of the largest volunteer army in the world, 2.5m men from undivided India – what is today India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – who served the British during World War II. They were fighting for Britain at a time when the struggle for India's freedom from British rule was at its most incendiary…"
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 Legion 4  | 14 Oct 2020 9:20 a.m. PST |
Seems today … everything is deemed political … |
| Tango01 | 14 Oct 2020 12:26 p.m. PST |
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