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EU: Stadsgezicht Colombo (Ceylon) in WO 2. (1940)

1940 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Colombo, Ceylon, pictured around the start of the Second World War in 1940, when the port city took on added strategic importance for British forces in the Indian Ocean.

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