Brigadier Wingate, centre, talking to the men under his command after returning from a British guerilla expedition in Burma, May, 1943. Major General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO & Two Bars, 1903 – 1944. Senior British Army officer, creator of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War. From The War in Pictures, Fourth Year.

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