The Darkest Hour: Volume 2: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean 1942 - The Attack Against Ceylon and the Eastern Fleet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Darkest Hour: Volume 2: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean 1942 - The Attack Against Ceylon and the Eastern Fleet write by Michal A. Piegzik. This book was released on 2022-08-25. The Darkest Hour: Volume 2: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean 1942 - The Attack Against Ceylon and the Eastern Fleet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the Japanese navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March-April 1942. Its main goal was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the Eastern flank of the Pacific War on the eve of the battle of Midway.
ÒThe Most Dangerous Moment of the WarÓ
ÒThe Most Dangerous Moment of the WarÓ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ÒThe Most Dangerous Moment of the WarÓ write by John Clancy. This book was released on 2015-11-19. ÒThe Most Dangerous Moment of the WarÓ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early April 1942, a little-known episode of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be Òthe most dangerous moment of the war,Ó when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. Historian Sir Arthur Bryant said, ÒA 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.Ó War in the Far East had erupted with the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, followed in succession by Japanese drives on the Philippines, Indochina, the Java Sea and Singapore. Seemingly unstoppable, the Japanese now had a vast new empire, and having crippled the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, 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 control of the essential convoy routes to Europe and the Western Desert. And aside from the British Eastern Fleet, the Indian Ocean lay undefended. So far the Japanese had suffered no significant losses and the question on everyoneÕs lips was how soon the enemy would appear off India. In April 1942 a Japanese fleet led by six aircraft carriers, four battleships and 30 other ships sailed into the Bay of Bengal. After the war Churchill said that potential disaster was averted by the actions of one pilot, Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall, who in his Catalina flying boat spotted the Japanese warships massing some 350 miles from Ceylon. He was shot down by a Japanese Zero but not before sending a brief radio message back to his base. This gave the islandÕs defense forces time to prepare. In the ferocious battles that followed, the British lost a carrier, two heavy cruisers and many other ships; however, the Japanese eventually turned back, never to sail against India again. John Clancy, whose father survived the sinking of HMS Cornwall during the battle, tells the story of this dramatic but little known campaign in which a major Allied catastrophe was only narrowly averted.
The Darkest Hour: Volume 1 - The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean
The Darkest Hour: Volume 1 - The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Darkest Hour: Volume 1 - The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean write by Michal A. Piegzik. This book was released on 2022-04-15. The Darkest Hour: Volume 1 - The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Darkest Hour presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March-April 1942, the main goal of which was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the eastern flank of the Pacific War on the eve of the Battle of Midway.The bold operation of two Japanese task forces (Kidō Butai and Malay Force) in the Indian Ocean could not be possible without the fall of Singapore in February and the Dutch East Indies in early March 1942. From the strategic point of view, the Japanese offensive in the Indian Ocean was the only moment in the Second World War when the Axis forces could coordinate their efforts to severely threaten the position of the British Empire in the crucial Middle East and India areas.The Darkest Hour describes the strategic planning of both sides in February-March 1942, including the Japanese navy projections on the last steps of the first stage of the Pacific War, and the Royal Navy's hopes to halt the enemy advance without taking any significant risks.The Japanese offensive in the Indian Ocean began in March 1942 with the invasion of the Andaman Islands and Christmas Island. By securing both vital positions, the Japanese navy planned to establish its advanced bases in the eastern part of the Bay of Bengal. In the next step, the invincible Kidō Butai consisting of five aircraft carriers and their escorts, was expected to crush the British bases on Ceylon and once and forever destroy the main core of the Eastern Fleet. The chaos provoked by the Kidō Butai would then become a great opportunity for the Malay Force to cut off the British shipping routes in the western part of the Bay of Bengal.The Darkest Hour is the first systematic attempt to describe the less-well known part of the Pacific War by researching both British and Japanese archive documents and other secondary sources published in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, and India.
The Most Dangerous Moment
The Most Dangerous Moment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Most Dangerous Moment write by Michael Tomlinson. This book was released on 1976. The Most Dangerous Moment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Japan’s Indian Ocean Raid 1942
Japan’s Indian Ocean Raid 1942 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan’s Indian Ocean Raid 1942 write by Mark Stille. This book was released on 2023-12-19. Japan’s Indian Ocean Raid 1942 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An illustrated exploration of the Japanese raid into the Indian Ocean in April 1942 – one of the largest operations conducted by the Imperial Navy during the war.
