Regional1942

Indian Ocean raid (Easter Sunday Raid)

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Sri Lanka

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Ceylon (1942), part of the World War II. Japan defeated United Kingdom.

Belligerents2

Japan
United Kingdom

ON THE MAPEmpire of Japan (peak, 1942)British Empire (1939)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Indian Ocean raid (Easter Sunday Raid) (1942). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-ceylon · Sources & methodology