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Indian soldiers fought, died on the Gothic Line; 80 years later Indian ex-pat Dhruv Ratti campaigns for recognition that Italians, Europeans benefit from freedom ``nourished by Indian blood''
By Joe Kirwin
More than 60,000 Indian troops served in the Allied Force armies that fought and died to free Italy from German and Italian Fascist tyranny even though the soldiers from India did not have democracy in their homeland. Serving as volunteers under British command in the Adriatic sector of the Gothic Line offensive, Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Gurkhas and others fought side by side - primarily as fierce mountain fighters. They covered the flank of British soldiers on their right coming up the hills over looking the Adriatic Sea and American Fifth Army on their left, who began a…
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