The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942-1944: The Fleet that Had to Hide

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The three-squadron structure continued until the Second World War and the beginning of hostilities with the Empire of Japan, when the Eastern Fleet was formally constituted on 8 December 1941, amalgamating the East Indies Squadron and the China Squadron. Ryūjō 's aircraft also bombed the ports of Cocanada and Vizagapatam, causing relatively minor damage.

The bases thus acquired in Indochina allowed extended Japanese air cover of the invasion forces bound for Malaya and for the Dutch East Indies. The course change was presumably to maintain distance between a superior enemy that was believed to be still closing, or to cover Port T from attack, but it also meant the British lost an opportunity to meet the enemy; had Force A continued on its easterly course, Carrier Division 2 would have passed right in front of it at 21:00 at range of about 20 miles (32 km). you’ll almost certainly want this second instalment… it’ll be a shame if you don’t, especially as the subject is so fascinating and you can widen your modelling on the theme. But in this book- Charles Stephenson, an author on British Naval and colonial topics, tells quite a different tale of Britain's Eastern Fleet, the Pacific Fleet that had run from the Japanese, letting the Japanese dominate the Southeast Asian coastlines for much of the Pacific War. On 6 April heavy cruisers Kumano and Suzuya with destroyer Shirakumo sank the British merchant ships Silksworth, Autolycus, Malda and Shinkuang and the American ship Exmoor.The second volume examines the Japanese aerial assault upon the British bases on Ceylon, and the attacks against the carrier HMS Hermes, cruisers MS Cornwall and Devonshire, and the destroyer HMAS Vampire. The Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf was responsible for administering Royal Navy ships and establishments in the Persian Gulf. If the Japanese approached as expected from the southeast and the British failed to find the Japanese before dawn, the distance between the two fleets would be no more than 100 miles (160 km); the British would be detected by Japanese aerial reconnaissance at dawn and be subject to air attack for the entire day. Allied advances in the Mediterranean and northern Europe during 1943 and 1944, however, released naval resources.

They had sunk the battleships Repulse and Prince of Wales, taken Singapore, Java and Sumatra, and occupied the Anda­mans and Nicobars as forward air bases.

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