Nov 1, 2014

India in Second World War - Part 3

Indian in Second World War
Chief Officer Margaret L Cooper, Deputy Director of the Women’s Royal Indian Naval Service (WRINS), with Second Officer Kalyani Sen, WRINS at Rosyth during their two month study visit to Britain, 3rd June 1945

Indian in Second World War
Trainee mechanical engineers at work in the Royal Indian Navy’s shore establishment, HMIS TALWAR, near Bombay, 1941

Indian in Second World War
Crew of HMIS ‘Narbada’ with blistered gun barrels following the bombardment of Myebon, Hunters Bay, Burma

Indian in Second World War
Zavier Fernandez from Bombay was injured when the Russian convoy in which he was sailing was attacked. In hospital he underwent rehabilitation and in this photograph he was recovering the use of his fingers by working at strings on a frame

Indian in Second World War
Workers at an Indian railway workshop now employed in the construction of armoured vehicles, 1942

Indian in Second World War
Indian Air Force engineering officers under training at the Schools of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Henlow, July 1943

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