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Lord Mountbatten

  • Burma campaignIn January 1942, the Japanese Fifteenth Army under Lieutenant General Shōjirō Iida moved into northern Thailand and launched an attack over jungle-clad…
  • Operation PlutoIn early April 1942, Lord Louis Mountbatten approached Geoffrey Lloyd with a desperate question. Could an oil pipeline be laid across the English Channel?
  • Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of BurmaEdwina Cynthia Annette Ashley entered the world on the 28th of November 1901 in London. Her father Wilfrid Ashley served as a Conservative member of…
  • Dieppe RaidOn the 19th of August 1942, the Allied amphibious attack on Dieppe began as a desperate gamble to satisfy Soviet demands for a second front.