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The Indian Ocean raid, also known as Operation C[2] or Battle of Ceylon in Japanese, was a naval sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 31 March to 10 April 1942. Japanese aircraft carriers under Admiral Chūichi Nagumo struck Allied shipping and naval bases around British Ceylon, but failed to locate and destroy the bulk ...
The Easter Sunday Raid was an air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid by carrier -based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 5 April 1942. The Japanese objective was to destroy the Ceylon-based British Eastern Fleet in harbour. The British preemptively dispersed shipping from the harbours before the attacks due to ...
Canadian Forces' Decoration. Officer of the Legion of Merit (United States) Air Commodore Leonard Joseph Birchall, CM, OBE, DFC, OOnt, CD (6 July 1915 – 10 September 2004), "The Saviour of Ceylon", was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officer who warned of a Japanese attack on the island of Ceylon during the Second World War.
Ceylon Navy Volunteer Reserve. Eritrea, 14 September 1943 entering Port of Colombo to surrender following interception by HMS Overdale Wyke of the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force. Whaleback HSL 164, a Type Two 63 ft HSL, off Colombo with a Hawker Hurricane overhead. The Ceylon Navy Volunteer Reserve was taken over by the Royal Navy.
HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy 's Hōshō was the first to be commissioned. [ 2 ] The ship's construction began during the First World War, but she was not completed until after the end of the war, having ...
30 January 1942: I-64 sank the freighters Florence Luckenbach, [33] Jalapalaka and Jalatarang in the Bay of Bengal. [30] 15 February 1942: I-65 sank the freighter Johanne Justesen off Ceylon. [30] 16 February 1942: An Allied troop convoy from Darwin to Timor was turned back by Japanese air attack. [34] 19 February 1942: Japanese invasion of Bali.
No. 222 Group was a group of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.Formed on 1 September 1941, based at Ceylon.Squadrons were stationed around the Indian Ocean.The group undertook long-range bombing and mine-laying operations that took them as far afield as Sumatra and Singapore.
The initial land forces operational area for SEAC was India, Burma, Ceylon, Malaya, northern islands of Sumatra, and, for offensive operations, Siam (Thailand). On 15 August 1945 (VJ-Day) this was expanded to include the rest parts of Dutch East Indies and southern part of French Indochina.