3rd September 1939 The day World War 2 started.For the Indian Army a war which marked its emergence as a truly modern fighting force capable of taking on the best in the world.The German Army, arguably the world's best fighting force at that time had a very high regard for the Indian Army's combat capabilities, discipline and ethos. Mandeep ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham@gmail.com> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 9:38 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Website ''Dedicated to the preservation ofmilitary history'' > This looks like a great site, something about which Mandeep > can tell us more. http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php > ''Dedicated to the preservation of military history''. > > I don't precisely understand the significance of the date in the > following information: The Indian Army on 3 September 1939. > http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=6698&allpages=1&theme=Printer > > --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > Nagpur, India > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message