An elephant towing a fighter aircraft, near Kalpitiya. During WW II, the Puttalam elephants were used to haul the Corsairs back to firmer grounds as they used to slither off the water-logged.
Staff Sergeant-Major Percy G.B. Perera of the British Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was the only non-European soldier to be appointed Confidential Stenographer at British Advanced Headquarters in the Sudan and Eritrea during the campaign against Italian Forces in North-East Africa in 1941.