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...second attack opened when fleet units and the R.A.F. shelled and bombed three key points along Madagascar's irregular western shore. Under cover of Navy guns, landing parties were soon ashore driving toward Morondava, Majunga and Ambanja, which fell with little opposition. A few days later British forces were well on the road to Tananarive, this time to mop up Madagascar for good...
Madagascar is potentially a great air base, too. The 980-mile-long island has four well-equipped major fields, at Diégo-Suarez, Ivato, Fort Berge, Majunga. The island's 35,000 white population has been said by some to be 98% anti-Vichy but its governor for some months has been an ardent Vichy-man who has put De Gaullists in jail...
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