World War II
During the Second World War,the Regiment converted to tanks, and became part of the 255th Indian Tank Brigade The regiment took part in the re-conquest of Burma.
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“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh.
Sighing is extra.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)