SOURCE: "Carrier Pilot" by Norman Hanson (an excellent read!)
At dawn on 21 July 1944, F4Us fr om HMS Illustrious raided Port Blair in the Andaman Islands between India and Thailand. They knocked out the Japanese AAA and destroyed eight Japanese fighters parked beside the air strip. This was an early success for the Eastern Fleet, which by the end of the year, would become the core of the new British Pacific Fleet backing up the US Navy in the invasion of Okinawa by attacking the fields wh ere the kamikaze planes were deployed.
Eventually, I plan to merge all the missions into a single campaign. Comments are welcome.
tttiger (HotTom in the forums)
