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Indian soldiers and the WWII Allied Army Gothic Line campaign Pt. 2: Expatriate Indian community in Italy embrace their forebears but the story is still a blank history page in India.
``The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see,'' Winston Churchill on the need to know history.
More than 50,000 Indian and Gurkha soldiers fought as part of the British Eighth Army during the WWII Allied campaign in Italy. They played a vital role in the Gothic Line offensive, especially in the Apennine mountains where they together in close combat with Scottish Highlander troops. Unfortunately that story has been censored from Indian history books since the country gained independence from the United Kingdom several years after the end of WWII.
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