. "Orde Charles Wingate"@en . "Chindits" . . "Wingate, Orde Charles"@en . "1944Z"^^ . . "1903-02-26Z"^^ . . "British Army general" . "1903Z"^^ . . . "1921Z"^^ . . "Gideon Force" . . "1944Z"^^ . . . . . . . . . "1944-03-24Z"^^ . . "Major General Orde Charles Wingate DSO & Two Bars (26 February 1903 \u2013 24 March 1944) was an officer of the British Army known for his creation of the Chindits deep-penetration missions in Japanese held territory during World War II. Wingate was an exponent of unconventional military thinking and the value of surprise tactics. Assigned to the Mandatory Palestine, he became a supporter of Zionism, and set up a joint British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit."@en .