National Liberation Armies - Viet Minh, Irish National Liberation Army, Vietnam People's Army, Free French Forces, Indische Legion (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Viet Minh, Irish National Liberation Army, Vietnam People's Army, Free French Forces, Indische Legion, Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, Mukti Bahini, National Liberation Front, Neltume, Greek People's Liberation Army, Burma National Army, Mohammad Iqbal Shedai, List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army, Libyan People's Army, Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade, Maquis du Vercors, 26th of July Movement, Free Libyan Air Force, Battaglione Azad Hindoustan, Maquis du Mont Mouchet, Makapili, Inner Mongolian Army, Polish Independent Highland Brigade. Excerpt: The Legion Freies Indien, or the Indische Legion, variously known as the Tiger Legion, the Free India Legion (in English), the Azad Hind Fauj in Hindi, and the Indische Freiwilligen-Legion Regiment 950 or the I.R 950 (Indisches Infanterie Regiment 950) was an Indian armed unit raised in 1941 attached to the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer), ostensibly according to the concept of an Indian liberation force during World War II by Subhash Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany. The initial recruits were Indian student volunteers resident in Germany at the time, and a handful from the Indian PoWs captured by Rommel during his North Africa Campaign. It would later draw a larger number of Indian PoWs as volunteers. Raised initially as an assault group that would form a pathfinder to a German/Indian invasion of the western frontiers of British India, only a small contingent was ever put to its original intended purpose when a hundred of the Legionnaires were parachuted into eastern Iran to infiltrate into India through Baluchistan and commence sabotage operations against the British in preparation for an anticipated national revolt. A majority of the troops of the Free India Legion were only ever stationed in Europe - mostly in non-combat duties - from the Netherlands, to...