Major General Orde Wingate led the "Chindits", a force of ordinary British soldiers (i.e. not special forces) who successfully fought the Japanese forces on their own terms in the jungle. Until then, the Japs had been at home in the jungle, but to our chaps it was wild and forbidding. If you want to know more, a Google search for "Orde Wingate" (with the inverted commas) finds some 2,990 sites. You should find some information in those!