What the records say
- When
- 5 May 1942 – 6 Nov 1942
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 12.27° S, 49.28° E
- Description
- 1942 battle during WWII
- War
- World War II
Battle of Madagascar
Campaign during WWII
The Battle of Madagascar was an Allied campaign to capture the Vichy French−controlled island Madagascar during World War II. The seizure of the island by the British was to deny Madagascar's ports to the Imperial Japanese Navy and to prevent the loss or impairment of the Allied shipping routes to India, Australia and Southeast Asia.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Battle of Madagascar (Operation Ironclad) begins when British forces land on the Vichy French colony of Madagascar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “début du blocus britannique de Madagascar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “英軍がマダガスカルに上陸（マダガスカルの戦い）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page