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Folks, this is an excellent Twitter thread by my young friend & Navy enthusiast @zwerubae on a little known aspect of Indian Naval history. It's very well researched & has great pics accompanying. About the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service or WRINS for short. I will only add
2/n. Few small bits in this thread to accompany the earlier one. While the monograph by #ValentinaVitali remains one of the most authoritative studies on WRINS, a very short piece by Peggy Cooper in the book 'Bombay Bucaneers' is worth reading too. @MHSofIndia had also done an
3/n. Article on WRINS few years ago. Adm SM Nanda in his autobiography 'The Man who Bombed Karachi' also makes a mention of WRINS. In fact he was appointed as their Divisional & Training Officer. As may be expected, in the initial days many of the WRINS were 'wives or daughters'
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