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7 de mai. de 2024 · Sir Claude Auchinleck was a British field marshal best known for his victory against Gen. Erwin Rommel in North Africa. Auchinleck was educated at Sandhurst military academy. He served in India and performed with distinction in the Middle East in World War I. He returned to India to command the.
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Há 3 dias · Despite having no prior special operations experience, the brash 25-year-old Stirling managed to convince the Middle East commander General Claude Auchinleck to let him form a new unit focused on sabotage, reconnaissance and raiding. On July 1st, 1941, L Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade was officially established under Stirling‘s command.
Há 5 dias · Claude Auchinleck. The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, [1] began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men. [2] By the end of the war, it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945.
Há 5 dias · The British Chiefs-of-Staff and the Commander-in-Chief, India, General Claude Auchinleck, were in favour of armed intervention, but the three local commanders (of British Troops in Egypt; in the Sudan, and in Palestine/Transjordan) were already burdened by the ongoing Western Desert Campaign, East African Campaign and the Battle of ...
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Há 2 dias · Beginning as early as December 1942, high-ranking government officials and military officers (including John Herbert, the Governor of Bengal; Viceroy Linlithgow; Leo Amery the Secretary of State for India; General Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India, and Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of ...
Há 1 dia · Allied Situation: The British Eighth Army, under the command of General Claude Auchinleck, was in a precarious position, having been pushed back to an area near the small railway halt of El Alamein, about 60 miles west of Alexandria.
