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| Tango01 | 17 Apr 2024 4:54 p.m. PST |
… New Guinea
" Hitherto little attention has been directed to the experience of Indian prisoners of war in South-East Asia, and much of that had concerned the formation of the pro-Japanese Indian National Army (INA). While several scholarly works explore the creation and outcome of the INA, much of the historiography of the INA is influenced by nationalist mystique, and especially by the legend of Subhas Chandra Bose.1 Of the approximately 40,000 Indians captured by the Japanese, mainly in the fall of Singapore in February 1942, up to 30,000 appear to have joined the INA, whether willingly or under duress.2 Many Indians still hail members of the INA as fighters for India's freedom. Those who rejected Japanese blandishments and remained loyal to their oath of service were regarded as dupes of the imperial power and have been disregarded by an independent India, which does not provide pensions to former members of Britain's Indian army…"
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ScottWashburn  | 18 Apr 2024 6:05 a.m. PST |
Interesting. As I recall, the Germans formed about four battalions of Indian volunteers from men they captured in North Africa and Italy. Some were used as garrison troops in France and some were sent off in two ships which attempted to run the blockade and land somewhere in Southeast Asia to join the Japanese there. One ship was captured, but the other was pursued into the high southern latitudes where it disappeared and was never heard from again. |
| Tango01 | 18 Apr 2024 3:11 p.m. PST |
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| Col Piron | 18 Apr 2024 3:56 p.m. PST |
As I recall, the Germans formed about four battalions of Indian volunteers from men they captured in North Africa and Italy.
'The Free India Legion'
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| Nine pound round | 19 Apr 2024 9:40 a.m. PST |
Bose was an evil man, but it would be hard to contrive a more awful fate than the one he got. Except maybe a Japanese POW camp. |
| Tango01 | 19 Apr 2024 3:42 p.m. PST |
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| Rocco Siffredi | 24 Apr 2024 8:30 p.m. PST |
Bose was an evil man, but it would be hard to contrive a more awful fate than the one he got. Except maybe a Japanese POW camp. Try telling Indians that! He is a national hero today. I think there's even an airport named after him. |
| Rocco Siffredi | 24 Apr 2024 8:31 p.m. PST |
And here it is: link Note the inclusion of "Netaji" in the name. Mwahahahaha. |
| Tango01 | 25 Apr 2024 4:03 p.m. PST |
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| Nine pound round | 26 Apr 2024 4:06 p.m. PST |
Is that Hindi for "crispy"? |
| Nine pound round | 26 Apr 2024 4:09 p.m. PST |
It's always a little funny naming airports after people who died in (or in Bose's case, as a result of) plane crashes. |
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