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Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, PC (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, [1] was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.
Field Marshal William Slim led the Fourteenth Army in Burma during the Second World War. Despite inheriting a disastrous situation, he restored his men's morale and led them to victory against the Japanese.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston was a British field marshal and chief of the Imperial General Staff who turned back an attempted Japanese invasion of India and defeated the Japanese armies in Burma (Myanmar) during World War II.
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Apr 20, 2015 · William ‘Bill’ Slim was a highly respected army commander. ‘Bill’ Slim found fame during the Burma campaign and especially the very important defeats of the Japanese Army at Kohima and Imphal in 1944. Slim was born on August 6 th 1891 near Bristol.
Jan 21, 2006 · In contrast, the commander of the British 14th Army, General William Slim, had been preparing to go over to the offensive and was not best placed to receive an attack in a sector where there...
Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.
General William Slim, architect of the 14th Army victory in Burma, inflicted the greatest land defeat on the Japanese in all of World War II. Nevertheless, Slim, pictured in 1945, was one of the unsung heroes of the war, his skill and command presence largely overshadowed by others in the upper echelons of the British Army.
