Easter Sunday, April 5, 1942. Adm. Nagumo’s aircraft carriers attack Colombo harbour and other British bases in Sri Lanka. A crippled Japanese Zero fighter flown by naval ensign Yukio Nakasone lands in a low-country tea estate. Both aircraft and pilot are hidden by the estate owner Oswald Perera, a mercurial nationalist with political ambitions. As the British authorities launch a hunt for the m
Easter Sunday, April 5, 1942. Adm. Nagumo’s aircraft carriers attack Colombo harbour and other British bases in Sri Lanka. A crippled Japanese Zero fighter flown by naval ensign Yukio Nakasone lands in a low-country tea estate. Both aircraft and pilot are hidden by the estate owner Oswald Perera, a mercurial nationalist with political ambitions. As the British authorities launch a hunt for the missing Japanese fighter and its pilot, Oswald Pere
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