The invasion of Madagascar
5th May 1942: Operation Ironclad - the British seize the Vichy French Island in the Indian Ocean
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…
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