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Operation Crimson
Part of the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War

HMS Victorious
Date25 July 1944
Location
Dutch East Indies
02°00′00″S 118°00′00″E / 2.00000°S 118.00000°E / -2.00000; 118.00000
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Operation Crimson United Kingdom
Operation Crimson Australia
Operation Crimson Netherlands
Operation Crimson France
Operation Crimson Japan
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom James Somerville Empire of Japan Moritake Tanabe
Strength
2 aircraft carriers
3 battleships
1 battlecruiser
6 cruisers
10 destroyers
2 submarines
34–39 fighters
Shore defences
2 reconnaissance aircraft
9–10 fighters
Casualties and losses
Unknown human losses
1 cruiser damaged
2 destroyers damaged
2 fighters destroyed
Unknown human losses
2 reconnaissance aircraft destroyed
2 fighters destroyed
2 fighters damaged
Civilian casualties:
1 war correspondent on an Allied ship was killed

Operation Crimson was an Allied naval operation in the Second World War of the Eastern Fleet, the objective being simultaneous naval bombardment and aircraft attacks on Japanese airfields in the Indonesian cities of Sabang, Lhoknga and Kutaraja, from aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean on 25 July 1944.[1]

  1. ^ Boniface 2006, p. 86.

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