Japanese carriers and aircraft during the Indian Ocean Raid

The Battle of Ceylon - 1942
WW II Japanese air raid on Colombo

"The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black."
- Sir Winston Churchill
http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/30-squadron.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Sunday_Raid

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