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EU: Stadsgezicht Colombo, Ceylon, WWII (1940) [128e4659]

1940 Colombo, Sri Lanka

This 1940 view of Colombo shows the port city going about its routines in the early stages of the Second World War, before the direct air raids that would strike Ceylon two years later.

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