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Well that map (not the govt, a military academy; and by no means are maps on the area consistent in borders) is wrong. Sheng Shicai, who pledged allegiance to China, controlled Xinjiang in 1939. Marking Xinjiang as separate is a strange innovation that mu
The international maritime boundary between the Maldives and India runs through the channels In the British Admiralty charts it is called Eight Degree Channel. It is so named as it lies on the 8-degree line of Latitude, north of the equator. Another local name for this channel is Addigiri Kandu.
The Maldives consists of 1,192 coral islands grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls, that stretch along a length of 871 kilometres (541 miles) north to south, 130 kilometres (81 miles) east to west, spread over roughly 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 sq mi), of which only 298 km 2 (115 sq mi) is dry land, making this one of the world's most ...
The Maldives were only marginally affected by the Second World War. The Italian auxiliary cruiser Ramb I was sunk off Addu Atoll in 1941. In March 1944, the German submarine U-183 fired through the Gan channel, torpedoing the oil tanker British Loyalty that had been anchored in the Addu lagoon. The tanker was damaged but not sunk, and its oil ...
Doll, John G. 2002. Cloth maps, charts and blood chits of World War II. Bennington, Vt: Merriam Press. World War II Historical Society monograph, 41. OCLC: 50874309. ISBN 978-1-57638-024-6; 978-1-57638-072-7. Evans, Michael, 'PoW tells of escape maps printed on secret press' The Times, 23 June 1997. Garber, Megan. 2013. "How Monopoly Games ...
Pacific Ocean Areas was a major Allied military command in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.It was one of four major Allied commands during the Pacific War and one of three United States commands in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries participated, with many investing all available civilian resources in pursuit of total war .
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. operational commands were in the Pacific.