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EU: Cityscape of Colombo (1942)

1942 Colombo, Sri Lanka

A view of Colombo, capital of British Ceylon, photographed in 1942 as the island served as an important Allied base in the Indian Ocean during the Second World War and a hub of wartime shipping.

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