Record #250f7f4f
No photo availableLocation Found
Bath, Somerset
Estimated Period
1944
Submitted By
Admin
Date Submitted
20 April 2026
Description
A photograph of a bearded, gaunt soldier wearing a bush hat and carrying a machete, found inside a first edition of "Defeat Into Victory" by Field Marshal Slim at a rare book dealer in Bath. The soldier's appearance — extreme thinness, long beard, tattered uniform — is consistent with Chindit operations behind Japanese lines in Burma. A partial inscription reads "—indits, March 44, somewhere in B—."
In Russian
Фото худого бородатого солдата в кустарниковой шляпе с мачете, найденное в книге «Поражение в победу» фельдмаршала Слима в антикварном магазине в Бате. Внешний вид — крайняя худоба, борода — соответствует операциям Чиндитов в Бирме. Надпись: «—индиты, март 44, где-то в Б—».
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