Wingate's men
Higgs, Colin, 1957-2019
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Possibly the most famous fighting formations of the Burma campaign during the Second World War were the Long Range Penetration Groups, more commonly known as the Chindits. Colonel Orde Wingate was given permission to attempt long-range operations deep within Japanese-held territory with the aim of sowing alarm and confusion amongst the enemy and disrupting Japanese plans for the invasion of India. For this, Wingate was given the Indian 77th Infantry Brigade. In February 1943 this force crossed into Burma on its first Chindit operation, codenamed Loincloth. The Chindits took the Japanese by surprise, putting one of the main railway lines out of order, but the Japanese responded quickly, interdicting supply drops to the Chindits who soon began to suffer severely from exhaustion and shortages of water and food.
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Wingate's men / Colin Higgs.
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Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2019.
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192 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781526746672 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'42591940.542591
Language:
English
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BRN:
2837691
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