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Indian Ocean in World War II. The pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee brought World War II to the Indian Ocean in 1939. Atlantis was the first disguised commerce raider in the Indian Ocean. Galileo Galilei was one of eight Italian submarines operating out of Massawa, and is shown here being captured by the Royal Navy.
- Forces & Commanders
- Indian Ocean Raid - Background
- Indian Ocean Raid - Nagumo Approaches
- Indian Ocean Raid - Easter Sunday
- Indian Ocean Raid - Trincomalee & Batticaloa
- Indian Ocean Raid - Aftermath
- Selected Sources
Allies 1. Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville 2. 3 carriers, 5 battleships, 7 cruisers, 15 destroyers Japanese 1. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo 2. 6 carriers, 4 battleships, 7 cruisers, 19 destroyers
Following the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the start of World War II in the Pacific, the British position in the region quickly began to unravel. Beginning with the loss of Force Z off Malaysia on December 10, British forces surrendered Hong Kong on Christmas before losing the Battle of Singapore on ...
Warned of Nagumo's intentions by American radio intercepts, Somerville elected to withdraw the Eastern Fleet to Addu. Entering the Indian Ocean, Nagumo detached Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa with Ryujo and ordered him to strike British shipping in the Bay of Bengal. Attacking on March 31, Ozawa's aircraft sank 23 ships. Japanese submarines claimed fi...
The next morning, which was Easter Sunday, Nagumo launched a large raid against Ceylon. Making landfall at Galle, the Japanese planes moved up the coast to strike at Colombo. Despite the warning the previous day and sightings of the enemy aircraft, the British on the island were effectively taken by surprise. As a result, the Hawker Hurricanes base...
Hitting Trincomalee at 7:00 AM, the Japanese struck targets around the harbor and one aircraft conducted a suicide attack into a tank farm. The resulting fire lasted a week. Around 8:55 AM, Hermes and its escorts were spotted by scout plane flying from the battleship Haruna. Intercepting this report, Somerville directed the ships to return to port ...
In the wake of the attacks, Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon feared that the island would be the target of invasion. This proved not to be the case as the Japanese lacked the resources for a major amphibious operation against Ceylon. Instead, the Indian Ocean Raid accomplished its goals of demonstrating Japanese naval superio...
22 de feb. de 2021 · In this article I present a survey of Indian Ocean Studies that focuses primarily on the development of its historiography after World War II from imperial history and its emergence as a...
7 de abr. de 2013 · 26 Mar 1942. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's Japanese First Air Fleet, built around a nucleus of five aircraft carriers, sailed from Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies to the west of Timor into the Indian Ocean with the intention of attacking the Royal Navy's bases at Colombo and Trincomalee in Ceylon. 27 Mar 1942.
The Indian Ocean has been a zone of human interactions throughout world history. As a body of water, of course, it has not been host to a civilization, and for this reason, it has been neglected in standard studies of world history for decades. Historians have only recently begun to think of the world's seas and oceans as theaters of human history.
Indian Ocean raid; Part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II: British heavy cruisers HMS Dorsetshire and Cornwall under Japanese air attack and heavily damaged on 5 April 1942.
Hace 1 día · The Indian Ocean is the smallest, geologically youngest, and physically most complex of the world’s three major oceans (the others being the Pacific and Atlantic). Although it first opened some 140 million years ago, almost all of the Indian Ocean basin is less than 80 million years old.
