The Axis attacks the supply and communication lines to Australia in this battle between an oil tanker and its escort and two auxiliary cruisers of the Japanese navy. The History Guy remembers the Ondina and Bengal versus Aikoku and Hōkoku, and the forgotten history of World War II in the Indian Ocean.
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