I do hope this was meant cynical because besides some "rumours" about individuals there were no Indian "units" reported in that area.k98_man wrote:Yes, there are many accounts of hardcore Indian units fighting alongside units in the battle of Berlin.
If there were any it was a handful perhaps.
Sources are too vague on this imho.
Hi Sid,sid guttridge wrote:Hi Fons,
All one can do is offer sources when asked. This I did. I am not in any way embarrassed that source was a radio show.
The "radio show" was a serious documentary, seriously researched on a serious radio station and shouldn't be knocked just because the medium is unfamiliar. The audio version of a book doesn't become less authoritative than the book itself just because it is transmitted over the radio.
Thank you for refining the facts by revealing that the men concerned were cadre personnel, not laison officers, and that one of them was the chief medic.
Can you tell us more about the fight you say they put up in France? I seem to recall that they were deployed somewhere in the west-centre of France and never came into contact with Allied regular forces.
Cheers,
Sid.
The fact you offer tha they were cadre ersonnel, not liaison offcers, reinforces my point. Tanks.
i have no problem with the fact that the information came from the radio show (i have heard that one as well, have it on cd in my files even), dont get me wrong on that.
I just found the way of presenting it a bit odd.
The only contact the main body of the legion had was in the South of France.
And like you said not with regular Allied troops (the last contact with Allied troops they had while in German service was when they were overrun by the Free French).
And all with the Maquis, nevertheless serious fights.
Everybody does seem to forget he 9th company was dispatched to Italy for a while.
They did see action against regular troops as i know.
greetings,
fons