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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 Indian Ocean raid was the last operation conducted by Axis surface raiders during World War II. [6] As a result, Behar was the final Allied merchant ship to be sunk by surface raiders during the war. [17] The raid is notable chiefly for the Behar massacre; it achieved little militarily. The raid failed to disrupt Allied traffic in the ...
In February 1944, the Combined Fleet, the Imperial Japanese Navy's main striking force, withdrew from its base at Truk in the Central Pacific to Palau and Singapore. The appearance of a powerful naval force at Singapore alarmed the Allies, as it was feared that these ships would conduct raids into the Indian Ocean and against Western Australia. [9]
Chūichi Nagumo (南雲 忠一, Nagumo Chūichi, 25 March 1887 – 6 July 1944) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.Nagumo led Japan's main carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and over the next months in successful raids on Darwin in Australia and in the Indian Ocean.
Zuikaku and the aircraft carrier Kaga preparing to attack Pearl Harbor, December 7th 1941 Zuikaku during Indian Ocean raid. Zuikaku would play a key role in the Indian Ocean Raid throughout April, where the Kidō Butai (excluding Kaga which scraped her hull on a reef) attacked various British warships and positions in a multiple-day raid.
German submarine U-511 was the first U-boat to reach the eastern Indian Ocean and was presented to Japan as IJN RO-500. HMS Tally-Ho was one of several British T-class submarines patrolling the Strait of Malacca. HMS Illustrious operated with USS Saratoga for Indian Ocean air raids.
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.
In April, he crossed into the Indian Ocean to support the large-scale raid against the Royal Navy at and near Ceylon. Yamaguchi returned to Japan briefly in late April for maintenance on his fleet, at a time when the IJN General Staff was making plans for a Second Operational Phase of the Pacific War.