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Netaji with other Indian icons of Indian Independence era

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Netaji and Tagore at mahajati Sadan in late 1930s. Netaji's elder brother Sishir Bose sitting between them. Netaji and Gandhi in 1920s Netaji  

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - Not "the Forgotten Hero"

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Netaji birth place - Odissa Chennai Kolkata Indian Children celebrating and offering floral tribute on 23rd January 2013 Ad on  Blood Donation Camp on Netaji Birthday

World War Secret Codes - USA National Archive

Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) Terms, Names, Organizational Abbreviations, and Code Words in OSS Records Some interesting or relevant WW2 codes exchnaged across the global war front are here in the format - Code word: Used for whom or for what Abwehr:  German military intelligence BIA : Burma Independence Army Birch : OSS agent that penetrated Germany through Scandinavia in 1945 BNA: Burmese National Army Boston : Series Intelligence reports based on George Wood/Kappa information BPF: Burma Patriotic Front Broadway: British Intelligence (MI6 Headquarters) Cassia: Anti-Nazi underground group in Vienna , Austria CBI: China-Burma-India Theater of Operations Cousins: The British Crossword: British designation for Operation Sunrise Crown Jewels: Germans deemed to be important for postwar purposes Drum :Presumably an OSS staff member at Bern , Switzerland and point of  contact  for “Drum” messages early in the war Fat Boy: German Reic

USA National Archive -OSS - Declassified records of WWII - Chinese Troops, US War Command Office inside Indian Territory

Background   Subject : Records of the United States Commission, United Nations War Crimes Commission On October 7, 1942, the United States and Great Britain issued simultaneous declarations that a United Nations War Crimes Commission would be established to affix responsibility of individuals guilty of war crimes and to collect and evaluate all the available evidence pertaining thereto. It was also stated that upon capitulation the enemy would be required to surrender war criminals within its jurisdiction. The declarations pointed out that it was not the intention of the United Nations to resort to mass reprisals but to punish “ringleaders responsible for the organized murder of thousands of innocent persons and the commission of atrocities which have violated every tenet of the Christian faith.” To help identify war criminals, coordinate the war crimes investigations, and determine if there was sufficient evidence available to bring individuals to trial for w

USA National Archive -OSS - Declassified records of WWII and of various Indian Interests

War Crimes Branch, Records of the United States Commission, United Nations War Crimes Commission — Box 121   File 118-4 War Crimes Lists 1945-1950 (0153-A1-147) : United Nations War Crimes Commission suspect lists, Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects (CROWCASS) wanted lists and detention lists, and other lists arising from international efforts to charge, apprehend, and prosecute war criminals. Arranged chronologically by date of list. Boxes 1-14 location 270/2/17/06.   Numbered Dispatches 1946-1948 (0153-A1-148) : Copies of dispatches sent from London by the U.S. Commission on the United Nations War Crimes Commission to the Secretary of State in Washington , D.C. Included are photographs of British- and Australian-originated records documenting Japanese war crimes in Shanghai , Burma , and the Southwest Pacific Area; UNWCC committee reports; and, trial and law reports. Arranged