Saturday, November 22, 2008

Calcutta. Bose escaped overland via Moscow to Berlin. Subsequently a German submarine took him to the Indian Ocean where he was transferred to a Japanese submarine and thence to Tokyo. He raised an Indian National Army, mainly from Japanese P.O.W. camps, which fought alongside the Japanese in north-western Burma and into India. At the end of the war he left Saigon in an aircraft that disappeared in mysterious circumstances.

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