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On April 5, 1942, Akagi launched 17 B5Ns and 9 Zero aircraft for an air raid on Colombo, the capital of Ceylon, causing heavy damage to port facilities. Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Signature shirt. No aircraft was lost, and Zero pilots assumed they had shot down about a dozen British defenses. Later that day, 17 D3A take-offs from Akagi helped sink the British heavy cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire. On April 9, she attacked Trincomalee with 18 B5Ns, escorted by six Zero aircraft, and claimed to have shot down five Hawker Hurricane fighters (but only two were confirmed by Allied documents). lost) without damage. At the same time a hovercraft from the battleship Haruna discovered that the light aircraft carrier Hermes was being escorted by the Australian destroyer, Vampire, and all available D3As were launched to attack the ships. Akagi contributed 17 dive bombers, and they helped to sink both. They also discovered that Athlestone tankers were being escorted by Hollyhock corvette, and also sunk them both without suffering any losses. During the operations that day, the aircraft carrier was nearly damaged when nine British bombers Bristol Blenheim took off from Ceylon through a patrol fence and dropped bombs from 11,000 feet (3,400). m), almost hit the carrier with the heavy cruiser Tone. [71] Four of the Blenheims were then shot down by the combat patrol aircraft and another was shot down by the attack force on the way back to the ship. After the air raid, the task force returned to Japan to refit and supply.

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