Indian Ocean in World War II

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Axis naval forces operated throughout the Indian Ocean during 1939-45. These activities included submarines, airstrikes by aircraft carriers, covert raiding ships, capital ships and raids by land-based heavy bombers. Forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy, German Kriegsmarine and Italian Regia Marina struck at Allied targets in and off countries including Australia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), British India, Madagascar and South Africa.

Major operations included:

• German auxiliary cruisers
• Axis naval activity in Australian waters
• Air raids on Australia, 1942–43
• Invasion and occupation of the Andaman Islands during World War II
• Battle of Christmas Island
• Cocos Islands Mutiny
• Indian Ocean raid
  • Easter Sunday Raid (on Ceylon 1942)
• Battle of Madagascar
• Japanese Indian Ocean raid (1944)
  • Western Australian emergency of March 1944
• Monsun Gruppe (German U-boats, 1944–45)

References

• Black, Jeremy (2009). "Midway and the Indian Ocean". Naval War College Review 62 (4). http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/PressReviewPDF.aspx?q=395. 

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