The Forgotten Military Is Story Of Azad Hind Fauj Via The Eyes Of The Soldiers

One battalion reached so far as Mowdok in Chittagong after breaking via the British West African Division. A Bahadur Group unit, led by Col. Shaukat Malik, took the border enclave of Moirang in early April. The main body of the first Division was nevertheless dedicated to the U-Go, directed in course of Manipur.

As the Japanese scenario grew to become precarious, the Azad Hind government withdrew from Rangoon to Singapore, together with the remnants of the 1st Division and the Rani of Jhansi Regiment. Nearly 6,000 troops of the surviving models of the INA remained in Rangoon under A. They surrendered as Rangoon fell and helped keep order until the Allied forces entered town.

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The exact organisation of the INA and its exact troop power isn't known, since its records have been destroyed by the withdrawing Azad Hind Government before Rangoon was recaptured by Commonwealth forces in 1945. The order of battle described by Fay (constructed from discussions with INA-veterans), nonetheless, is similar to that described of the first INA by Toye in The Springing Tiger. Kiani, drew many ex-Indian military prisoners of struggle who had joined Mohan Singh's first INA.