The invasion of Madagascar

5th May 1942: Operation Ironclad - the British seize the Vichy French Island in the Indian Ocean

HMS Devonshire and HMS Ramillies off Madagascar bombarding the French Coastal batteries.

Although many Free French were now fighting with the British, the Vichy regime in France was a different proposition. The French had allowed the Japanese into French Indo-China, a move that had given them access to Malaya and Singapore. Now it was feared that the Jap…