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"A well-detailed account of the [World War II] raid, which badly stung the Royal Navy but which the Japanese failed to exploit to a strategic advantage" ( Seapower ). In early April 1942, a little-known episode of World War II took place. Said by Sir Winston Churchill to be "the most dangerous moment of the war," the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. As historian Sir Arthur Bryant said, "A Japanese naval victory in April 1942 would have given Japan total control of the Indian Ocean, isolated the Middle East and brought down the Churchill government." Having crippled the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese turned their sights on the British Eastern Fleet based at Ceylon. Occupation of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, would not only provide the Japanese a springboard into India but also control of the essential convoy routes to Europe and the Western Desert. And aside from the British Eastern Fleet, the Indian Ocean lay undefended. In April 1942, a Japanese fleet led by six aircraft carriers, four battleships, and thirty other ships sailed into the Bay of Bengal. In the ferocious battles that followed, the British lost a carrier, two heavy cruis

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Author

John Clancy

Publisher

Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612005331

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

3.4 / 5 (124 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14