Inventory description: Extract from the war diary of the 3rd (Parachute) Bn, the 1st Punjab Regiment, for the period September 1939 - August 1945; together with some related correspondence with General Headquarters, General Staff Branch, Staff Duties Directorate, Historical Section, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, November and December 1953, concerning the account of this battalion given in a draft version of ‘The History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War’; associated with World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943); World War Two, East Africa, (1940-1941), World War Two, Middle East (1940-1943) and World War Two Italy (1943-1945).