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British Overseas Territories

                                                                                                                                        British Overseas Territories

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                                                                                                                                      USAAF in Ascension Island

                                                                                                                                                    Markings

                                                                                                 Usa may 42 to june 43  Usa june 43 to august 43  Usa since august 1943  Usa on sea blue or black color

                                                                                                       

 

                                                                                                                               Flags of British Overseas Territories

 

Flag of anguilla svg        Anguilla Island

 

Flag of ascension island svg        Ascension Island

 

Flag of bermuda svg        Bermuda Island

 

Flag of montserrat svg         Montserrat Island

 

Flag of saint helena svg         Saint Helena Islands

 

Flag of south georgia and the south sandwich islands svg         South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

 

Vierge united states virgin island2         British Antarctic

            

Flag of the british virgin islands svg         Virgin Islands

 

Flag of the cayman islands svg         Cayman Islands

 

Flag of the commissioner of the british indian ocean territory svg        British Indian Ocean Territory

 

Flag of the falkland islands svg        Falkland Islands

 

Flag of the pitcairn islands svg        Pitcairn Islands

 

Flag of the turks and caicos islands svg        Turks and Caicos Islands

 

Flag of tristan da cunha svg       Tristan Da Cunha Island

 

 

British Overseas Territories at War since 3 September 1939

During the War, the United States agreed with its British allies to build a highly strategic military airfield in Ascension Island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bermuda Islands : Saint David's Island, Morgan Island and Tucker's Islands was part of the Lend Leased to the United States where they installed Naval Air Stations from 1941 to 1945.

British Antarctic and Falklands Islands : See Operation "Tabarin" (1943-1945)

British Indian Ocean Territory : Diego garcia Island, site of a joint military facilities between UK and US with Naval and Airbase during the War

In 1942, a battalion en route to India was deployed to the Falklands as a garrison amid fears of a Japanese seizure of the archipelago

Tristan Da Cunha Island was used as a secret intelligence station to monitor German U-boats.

South Georgia Island : During the Second World War, the Royal Navy deployed an armed merchant vessel to patrol South Georgian and Antarctic waters against German raiders.