Photograph Title: Colombo’s waterfront before assault
Photograph Copyright: Associated press, New York
Date: 15 April 1942
The warehouses, docks and lines of bullock wagons along the waterfront of Colombo, Ceylon as they (Japanese aircraft) appeared before the fierce assault by Jap bombers April 5.
History 31 jan to 31 march 1942. Also , iwas billeted with tea planter famlly in kandy with my mother after escaping from singapore on 31 jan 1942 trying to identify kandy family..wentodentist in colombo on25 feb 1942, aged 4 years