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Admiral Sir James Somerville,...

history · 26 March 1942 · 83 years ago

Admiral Sir James Somerville, who had commanded the force that had sunk the Bismark in the previous year, took commanded of the British Eastern Fleet, hoisting his flag in the battleship HMS Warspite at Trincomalee, Ceylon. 

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