"David Rooney has done Wingate\'s memory a signal service." The Spectator.
What had happened to change Slim\'s mind so completely?.
General Slim joined the world-wide tributes paid to Wingate: but by 1956, to the distress of the Chindits, in his book Defeat Into Victory, Slim was dismissive of Wingate.
Major General Orde Wingate, DSO and two bars, who had created and personally led the Chindits, was killed in an air accident in 1944, at the height of the second Chindit campaign. "David Rooney has done Wingate\'s memory a signal service." The Spectator