Japan had no interest in invading Africa, they knew that UK had that on lockdown and they didn’t have the resources to do it. I am 100% sure that Japanese High Command would of double down on invading Australia over that. The idea behind controlling Indian ocean was to do two jobs. First: Close Burma Road since the Chinese were getting heavy equipment from the US. People forget the bulk of the IJA was in China and China was always the end goal for Japan. Two: Cutting the Persian trade route was more of a request from Germany. People forget that the Battle of Madagascar was the only battle during WWII that had both Germany and Japan in the same battle.
Dornier 17 Salvage Operation
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Rare WWII Dornier 17 plane to be raised from seabed
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Thanks Marc. Fantastic story.
I always liked the “Flying Pencil”.
Will certainly go to Hendon to see it, if they can salvage enough of it.Cannot believe it was shot down by a Defiant!
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LOL, guess I should check to see if somebody else had posted this! Nice work, going to have to get up a bit earlier me thinks!