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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 ...
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.
After the Japanese successes in southeast Asia, the squadron was sent to Ceylon to provide a reconnaissance force. [5] On 4 April 1942, only two days after his arrival, Squadron Leader Birchall was flying a PBY Catalina flying boat (AJ155/QL-A) that was patrolling the ocean to the south of Ceylon. Nine hours into the mission, as the plane was ...
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.
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. [7][8][9] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of ...
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. When it became clear that Japanese forces posed an ...
The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua. It was primarily a land battle, between the Japanese South Seas Detachment under Major General Tomitarō Horii and ...