Century of Struggle and Sucess
The Sikh Canadian Experience
by Sandeep Singh Brar

Part V
Wartime Contributions


World War II saw Sikhs fighting on both the European and African fronts against the Nazis and in the Pacific Theatre against the Japanese. There are photographs of Sikhs in the jungles of Burma in 1943 & 1944. As well as rare photographs of captured Sikh soldiers being executed by a Japanese firing squad in Singapore.




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