Orde wingate biography sample

British WWII Army general (1903-1944)

Major GeneralOrde Charles Wingate, DSO & Two Bars (26 February 1903 – 24 March 1944) was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.

Wingate was an exponent of unconventional military thinking and the value of surprise tactics. Wingate was a dedicated Christian Zionist.

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Orde wingate was the founder of the Modern Israel army.

This is an excellent and well-balanced study of the brilliant if eccentric British officer and his activities in Palestine, Ethiopia and Burma.

Wingate was responsible for leading the charge of 2, Ethiopians and the Sudan Defence Force into Italian-occupied Abyssinia.

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In Mandatory Palestine, he set up a joint British–Jewish counter-insurgency unit called the Special Night Squads. Under the patronage of the area commander Archibald Wavell, Wingate was given increasing latitude to put his ideas into practice during the Second World War.

He created units in Abyssinia and Burma.

At a time when Britain was in need of morale-boosting generalship, Wingate attracted British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill's attention with a self-reliant aggressive philosophy of war, and was given resources to stage