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Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Japan attacked Trincomale, Ceylon according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 12 April 1942

An item reported that during the Japanese attack on Trincomalee, Ceylon on 6 April 7 or 8 merchant ships were sunk. The American ss Exhibitor went back to Calcutta, India after she was attacked in the mouth of the Hooghly river.

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Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No.123 dated 12 April 1942. 

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