Sri Lankan Kings Collection- A rare Collection

chriela

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Koheda danne na.........
This is the real thing. The Picture of Saradiyel.

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Machan me Saradiyel kiwwama api hithagena hitiye loku size porak kiyala balagena giyama miniha e tharam body ekak na ne.

Machan thread ekanam niyamai
 

kukku baba

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    May Mokakda Bolay May ?
    Meka thama 2nd Century ( dan api innay 21st nay ) World Map ekka.
    Dakka nay da e kalay widihata Lankaway Loku :baffled: ( ara mada thiyennay Labu Gediya wagay loku dupathak- pena widihata lankawa da kohay da e kalay thibba lokuma dupatha )
    May wenakota Americawa Austariyawa Loweth na Lovi Gaheth Na.:lol: E kalay Lankawata kiuway Thaprobane kiyala. meka andala thiyennay Ptolemy kiyala Greek porak.

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    kukku baba

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    Yamuda 2nd world war ekkay apay set ekkay wada kida balanna:nerd:




    Battle of Ceylon 2nd World War.


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    Japanees Air craft carrier Akagi sending planes to attack ceylon (from wikimedia commons)



    On 5th of April, 36 val dive bombers, 53 kate torpedo bombers and 36 zero fighters took off from the carriers to attack Colombo. They flew from Galle to Colombo, but RAF fighters (Hurricanes) of No.30 squadron were still on ground as nobody informed them. Due to heavy flak fire (anti-aircraft) first zero was shot down at kalutara, second on katubadda and next on to the st. Thomas school cricket ground. A total of 5 planes went down, and the RAF lost 27 planes. Bombing the harbour, they destroyed the destroyer Tenedos and auxiliary cruiser Hector. The mental hospital at Angoda was also bombed mistakenly. The heavy cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire were detected in south-western sea 200 miles off the coast and were bombed and sunk by the Japanese navy. Royal Navy lost 424 sailors.

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    Heavy cruisers HMS cornwall and dosetshire under attck (from wikimedia commans)

    On 9th, they attacked Trincomalee and the ships which were on the harbour. The Australian cruiser vampire and corvette hollyhock were sunk at the harbour. The air-craft carrier Hermes has left in the night, but was spotted by a spy plane off the coast of batticaloa. She was having repairs at the harbour, hence had no planes on it. Defenseless, it was hit 40 times by 70 bombers before sinking. 307 sailors were killed, 590 were picked up. RAF lost 8 hurricanes, and Japanese lost 11 planes.

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    Aircraft carrier HMS Hermes sinking (from wikimedia commons)
     

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    an excellent thread... keep it up bruv!... Im a sri lankan who was born n raised outside da country, n it makes me proud to be sri lankan lukin at dese pix... well done!
     

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    At just before 1.30pm on the 27th November 1953, on a clear and humid afternoon in tropical Ceylon, a US military transport plane descended from its flight path and touched down on the tarmac of Ratmalana Airport, just south of the Indian Ocean island’s capital, Colombo.

    In October 1953, Vice President Richard Nixon embarked on a precedent-setting tour of Ceylon.

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