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During World War Two, an unconventional special force was formed. Known as the Chindits, they fought behind enemy lines in Burma, now Myanmar during 1943 and 1944 in the war against Japan. Their leader was the charismatic Orde Wingate, a British Army officer. This programme is made in collaboration with BBC Archives. It contains outdated and offensive language.… Play episode

Nagasaki bomb
World War Two’s Rome escape line
VE Day celebrations
The death of Adolf Hitler
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
'I wrote Schindler's List'
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
The Purple Heart Warriors
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Saving lives on D-Day
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
French child evacuees of World War Two
The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
Japan surrenders in China
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
Last communist march before Hitler
The Dambusters
German child evacuees of World War Two
World War II victory in North Africa
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Families interned in WW2 China
World War Two child evacuees in Britain
Shanghai at War
Britain's secret propaganda war
Broadcasting D-Day
D-Day
China and Japan at War
Berlin's Rubble Women
The Arnhem Parachute Drop
The Climbers of Leningrad
The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives
Saving Italy's Art During WW2
Britain's Land Girls
The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
The Sinking of the Lancastria
The Roma Victims of the Holocaust
The Katyn Massacre
The Germans Occupy Prague
Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan
Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot
Italy's Partisan Fighters
The Fall of Paris
The Imaginary War Heroes

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The Chindits