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<p>[QUOTE="iPen, post: 2323981, member: 69760"]I would like to add some of India's and WWII's more understated/underrated history I read up on, which adds even more to my appreciation of India's coins of WWII. About 2.5 million soldiers from India were raised to fight for the allies, in which about 87,000 of those soldiers lost their lives.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the articles:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33105898" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33105898" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33105898</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652684_gettyimages-3279090.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><i><font size="3">An Indian air force pilot from Punjab in England</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p><img src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652680_gettyimages-3400704.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652686_gettyimages-3276825.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652682_gettyimages-3309834.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="iPen, post: 2323981, member: 69760"]I would like to add some of India's and WWII's more understated/underrated history I read up on, which adds even more to my appreciation of India's coins of WWII. About 2.5 million soldiers from India were raised to fight for the allies, in which about 87,000 of those soldiers lost their lives. One of the articles: [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33105898[/url] [IMG]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652684_gettyimages-3279090.jpg[/IMG] [I][SIZE=3]An Indian air force pilot from Punjab in England [/SIZE][/I] [IMG]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652680_gettyimages-3400704.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652686_gettyimages-3276825.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83652000/jpg/_83652682_gettyimages-3309834.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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