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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    publicised a long distance raid mounted by the Chindits under Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate. The Chindits suffered heavy losses (1,138 out of a force of...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • "Operation longcloth". The Chindit Society. Retrieved 6 July 2018. Redding, Tony (1 October 2015). War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944. The...
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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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  • of Forli, Rimini Line, Italy 1944–45, Athens, Greece 1944–45, Chindits 1943, Chindits 1944, Burma 1943–44 The Korean War: The Hook 1953, Korea 1952–53...
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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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  • Chindit Chasing, Operation Longcloth 1943. Retrieved 6 September 2016. Young, Frank. "Chindits 1st Expedition 1943 Operation Longcloth". Chindits Special...
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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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    Battle of Yenangyaung Burma Campaign 1942–43 Arakan Campaign 1942–1943 Chindits Raid Burma Campaign 1944 Battle of the Admin Box Siege of Myitkyina Japanese...
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    In Myanmar and Laos: known as Chinthe, the namesake of the World War II Chindit soldiers In Okinawa: known as Shisa In Sri Lanka: known as Singha (සිංහ...
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    operations. After the first Chindits expedition, thanks to the training the regular forces were receiving and the example of the Chindits and new divisional tactics...
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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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    Italy 1944–45, Athens, Greece 1944–45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944 The Hook 1952, Korea 1952–53; Al Basrah, Iraq 2003; Second...
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