Word: chindit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Memorials. Wingate's Burma raiders were called the Chindits (a mispronunciation of the Burmese chinthé, lion), and in their first thrust against the Japanese they lost 800 out of 3,000 men. His second Chindit campaign began far more successfully, but no one will ever know how it would have developed. Early in the operation, Wingate was killed in the crash of a U.S. plane. Military men still argue the value of Wingate's tactical ideas. The U.S. borrowed them for Merrill's Marauders (TIME, April 30) with equally inconclusive results. In this able...
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