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Assault on the dry dock, St Nazaire, 28th March 1942
The colossal German battleship Tirpitz was a major threat to British sea routes in early-1942. If deployed in the Atlantic it would take refuge in the port of St Nazaire, where the Normandie Dock – the largest of its kind in the world – was big enough to accommodate it for repairs. If the dry…
Plaju refinery, Palembang, 14th February 1942
Japan’s conquest of the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) depended heavily on securing the vast natural resources of the archipelago. Near Palembang, capital of South Sumatra, was an Allied airfield (‘P1′) as well as two oil refineries – Plaju and Sungei Gerong – which processed a third of the Indies’ oil production. If the refineries…
Road ambush at Bakri, 18th January 1942
By mid-January 1942, the relentless Japanese advance across Malaya had forced British and Commonwealth forces to withdraw to Johore in the south of the country. It was here that one of the few local victories against the Japanese came on 18th January. At dawn, the Imperial Guards Division advanced down the road towards the town…
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