Unsung Brothers in Arms, Gothic Line heroes: Indian troops side by side with Scottish Highlanders - Part 1

WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day Italy, Europe · Dec 12, 2025 · 1h 4m

``The further backward you can look the further forward you can see,'' Winston Churchill on the need to know history.

There are many Gothic Line heroes who helped free Italy from Nazi and Italian Fascist tyranny but arguably some of the most unsung soldiers who fought and died for democracy even though they did not have it at home were the 50,000 Indians troops. They played a pivotal in the British-led Eighth Army on the Adriatic sector of the Allied Force campaign. Three Indian Divisions, each embedded with Scottish Highlander troops and sometimes other British soldiers, fought mainly in the…