8th Infantry Division (India)
The 8th Mountain Division was raised as the 8th Indian Infantry division of the British Indian Army. It is now part of the Indian Army and specialises in mountain warfare. The 8th was formed as an infantry division in Meerut on 25 October 1940 under Major-General Charles Harvey, a British Indian Army officer, as part of the Indian Army during World War II. It served in the Middle East in the garrisoning of Iraq and then the invasion of Persia to secure the oil fields of the area for the Allies. A brigade was detached to the Western Desert to reinforce the British Eighth Army as it withdrew before the Axis forces. Following training in the Near East, the division entered the Italian Campaign landing at Taranto on mainland Italy.
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8th Infantry Division (India)
The 8th Mountain Division was raised as the 8th Indian Infantry division of the British Indian Army. It is now part of the Indian Army and specialises in mountain warfare. The 8th was formed as an infantry division in Meerut on 25 October 1940 under Major-General Charles Harvey, a British Indian Army officer, as part of the Indian Army during World War II. It served in the Middle East in the garrisoning of Iraq and then the invasion of Persia to secure the oil fields of the area for the Allies. A brigade was detached to the Western Desert to reinforce the British Eighth Army as it withdrew before the Axis forces. Following training in the Near East, the division entered the Italian Campaign landing at Taranto on mainland Italy.
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La 8th Indian Infantry Divisio ...... ortail de l’histoire militaire
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The 8th Mountain Division was ...... n division of the Indian Army.
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Divisional badge during World War II.
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British India
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The Clovers
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Mountain Infantry
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La 8th Indian Infantry Divisio ...... vision spécialisé en montagne.
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The 8th Mountain Division was ...... at Taranto on mainland Italy.
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8th Indian Infantry Division (British Indian Army)
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8th Infantry Division (India)
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8th Indian Infantry Division
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8th Mountain Division
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The Clovers
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