Chindits information

Brayley 2002, p. 22. "Chindit Memorial (www.chindits.info)". www.chindits.info. Rooney, D. D. (2000). Wingate and the Chindits : redressing the balance...

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...

particular, complimentary toward the Chindits and their accomplishments. The Japanese subsequently admitted that the Chindits had disrupted their plans for the...

Imperial War Museums Chindit Memorial, London, chindits.info Chindits Memorial, ww1cemeteries.com Chindit Memorial, roll-of-honour.com Chindit Chasing, Operation...

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...

Maw was established by the Japanese in August 1942. Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep...

Mersa Matruh airfields destroyed 30 aircraft. In the Burma Campaign, the Chindits, whose long-range penetration groups were trained to operate from bases...

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...

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...

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...

British Chindits. The commander of the British unit, Lt. Col. D.C Herring restored confidence in the Americans who were worried whether the Chindits would...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

operations. The Chindits were disbanded in February 1945. Several of the brigade headquarters and many of the veterans of the Chindit operations were...

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...

Minister of India. Orde Charles Wingate, British general and commander of the Chindits in Burma during World War II Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational...

stalemate ensued throughout June, but the capture of Mogaung by the British Chindits under Mike Calvert later that month was the beginning of the end for the...

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...