Word: nicobars
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Delhi had to admit that it was conquest by default. The small garrison, the few colonials, civil servants and guards at the Indian penal center in Port Blair had abandoned the Andamans to the Japs. Ready for plucking were the 204 big & little Andamans and the adjoining Nicobar Islands, which curve between Burma's central coast and the northern tip of Sumatra, locking a gateway to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean...