Maldives in ww2. The only japanese military objective on maldives was the city of port blair. The countrys largest industries include fishing tourism and shipping. Wwii brought great hardship to the maldives.
During world war ii the maldives were a british protected state ruled by a succession of sultans. This served as a staging post for british military flights to the far east and australia replacing raf mauripur in pakistan which had been relinquished in 1956. Five fairey albacore from hms formidable raided massawa.
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A new constitution was introduced in 1942 and nurudin was persuaded to abdicate the following year. The neutral powers were countries that remained neutral during world war iisome of these countries had large colonies abroad or had great economic power. Britain built raf gan on addu atoll at the southern end of the country which was later redeveloped as gan international airport.
View maldives ww2039s memorial on fold3. The garrison consisted of a 300 man sikh militia with 23 british officers augmented in january 1942 by a gurkha detachment of 412th frontier force regiment of the 16th indian infantry brigade. Maldives granted the british a 100 year lease on gan that required them to pay 2000 a year as well as some 440000 square metres on hitaddu for radio installations.
Action of 27 february 1941 hms leander sank the italian merchant raider ramb i west of the maldives. Maldives independent island country in the north central indian ocean. Maritime trade with ceylon was severely reduced leading to shortages of rice and other necessities many died of illness or malnutrition.
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