Operation ‘Longshanks’, which was otherwise known as ‘Boarding Party’ and ‘Creek’, was a peculiar British operation against a German merchant ship moored, as a neutral, in the Portuguese enclave of Goa in western India, and took place on 9 March 1943. The operation was undertaken by members of the Calcutta Light Horse, a reserve unit …
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A German raiding foray into the Indian Ocean
Detail’s of Panzerschiffe Admiral Scheer’s successful merchant raiding foray into the Indian Ocean during early 1940.