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    Brayley 2002, p. 22. "Chindit Memorial (www.chindits.info)". www.chindits.info. Rooney, D. D. (2000). Wingate and the Chindits : redressing the balance...
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  • The Order of battle of the Chindits, an Allied special force which carried out two deep penetration raids behind Japanese line during the Burma campaign...
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    Imperial War Museums Chindit Memorial, London, chindits.info Chindits Memorial, ww1cemeteries.com Chindit Memorial, roll-of-honour.com Chindit Chasing, Operation...
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    particular, complimentary toward the Chindits and their accomplishments. The Japanese subsequently admitted that the Chindits had disrupted their plans for the...
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    death, Lentaigne took over command of the Chindit organization. He was the senior most officer in the Chindits and also had the most command experience...
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    Maw was established by the Japanese in August 1942. Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep...
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    17 May, overall control of the Chindits was transferred from Slim's Fourteenth Army to Stilwell's NCAC. The Chindits evacuated "Broadway" and the "White...
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    Mersa Matruh airfields destroyed 30 aircraft. In the Burma Campaign, the Chindits, whose long-range penetration groups were trained to operate from bases...
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    fronts in northern Burma. On 17 May, control of the Chindits passed from Slim to Stilwell. The Chindits now moved from the Japanese rear areas to new bases...
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    and Gurkha Chindit forces for not promptly responding to his demands to move north in an attempt to pressure Japanese troops, but the Chindits themselves...
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  • After the death in a plane crash of the commander and creator of the Chindits Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate on 24 March, decisions were made and the plans were...
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  • probably first entered British Army vocabulary to mean a temporary shelter by Chindits operating behind enemy lines in Burma, with the sheet taking its name from...
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    force "The Chinthes" (The Lions), a name which became corrupted to "The Chindits" and was so recorded in the annals of World War II. Chinthe is also the...
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    time in Burma with Wingate and the Chindits: Prisoners of Hope, Fighting Mad: One Man's Guerrilla War, and Chindits: Long Range Penetration. He also contributed...
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  • fighters as good as the Japanese. They had a few short months to become Chindits. The two brigades they joined numbered 7,677 officers and men going into...
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  • (Winter War) 3rd Indian Infantry Division, official designation for the Chindits Third Division (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    distance raid mounted by the Chindits under Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate. The raid itself was a mixed success; the Chindits suffered heavy losses (1,138...
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    command of the Chindits. The capture of Mogaung was the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese, and it was the last major Chindit campaign of...
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    Stilwell also needed to use the Chindits in his plan. However, he not only used them but misused them. The Chindits were designed as a light raiding...
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    operation. August 1943 US creates a jungle commando unit, similar to the Chindits, to be commanded by Major General Frank Merrill; it is informally called...
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    had also returned from the Chindit expedition, and continued as infantry until the end of the war> However, the Chindits did not see action again and...
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    Northern Combat Area Command. It was a special forces unit modelled on the Chindits' long range penetration groups trained to operate from bases deep behind...
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    airfields during World War II. It was led by Brigadier Mike Calvert of Chindit fame. The operation began with the drop of 700 French Special Air Service...
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  • British campaign there. Wingate was to use his experience to create the Chindits in Burma. The neutral Spanish island of Fernando Po was the scene of Operation...
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    December 1943, the unit was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate, on March 5, 1944, landing them at night in...
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    Defence for Malaya, Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, had served in the Chindits in Burma during World War II. Thompson's in-depth experience of jungle...
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  • It was formed in India in June 1942. The brigade was assigned to the Chindits and organised into eight columns for operations behind enemy lines in Burma...
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    Corps for service in the Far East. He later volunteered to serve with the Chindits and in 1944 saw action against the Japanese during the Battle of Mogaung...
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    operations. The Chindits were disbanded in February 1945. Several of the brigade headquarters and many of the veterans of the Chindit operations were...
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  • Chindit Chasing, Operation Longcloth 1943. Retrieved 6 September 2016. Young, Frank. "Chindits 1st Expedition 1943 Operation Longcloth". Chindits Special...
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