Operation Crimson

Operation Crimson
Part of the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War
HMS Victorious
Date 25 July 1944 Location Dutch East Indies 02°00′00″S 118°00′00″E / 2.00000°S 118.00000°E / -2.00000; 118.00000 Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
United Kingdom  Australia  Netherlands France	Japan
Commanders and leaders
James Somerville	Moritake Tanabe
Strength
2 aircraft carriers 3 battleships 1 battlecruiser 6 cruisers 10 destroyers 2 submarines 34–39 fighters	Shore defences 2 reconnaissance aircraft 9–10 fighters
Casualties and losses
Unknown human losses 1 cruiser damaged 2 destroyers damaged 2 fighters destroyed	Unknown human losses 2 reconnaissance aircraft destroyed 2 fighters destroyed 2 fighters damaged
Civilian casualties: 1 war correspondent on an Allied ship was killed

Operation Crimson was an Allied naval operation in the Second World War of the Eastern Fleet, the objective being simultaneous naval bombardment and aircraft attacks on Japanese airfields in the Indonesian cities of Sabang, Lhoknga and Kutaraja, from aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean on 25 July 1944.^[1]