主题：【原创】锡兰海战（一） -- xxxxxxxx

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm

我把1942年中途岛前面的copy/paste过来

January 2, 1942 - Manila and U.S. Naval base at Cavite captured by the Japanese.

January 7, 1942 - Japanese attack Bataan in the Philippines.

January 11, 1942 - Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo.

January 16, 1942 - Japanese begin an advance into Burma.

January 18, 1942 - German-Japanese-Italian military agreement signed in Berlin.

January 19, 1942 - Japanese take North Borneo.

January 23, 1942 - Japanese take Rabaul on New Britain in the Solomon Islands and also invade Bougainville, the largest island.

January 27, 1942 - First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine.

January 30/31 - The British withdraw into Singapore. The siege of Singapore then begins.

February 1, 1942 - First U.S. aircraft carrier offensive of the war as YORKTOWN and ENTERPRISE conduct air raids on Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands.

February 2, 1942 - Japanese invade Java in the Dutch East Indies.

February 8/9 - Japanese invade Singapore.

February 14, 1942 - Japanese invade Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies.

February 15, 1942 - British surrender at Singapore.

February 19, 1942 - Largest Japanese air raid since Pearl Harbor occurs against Darwin, Australia; Japanese invade Bali.

February 20, 1942 - First U.S. fighter ace of the war, Lt. Edward O'Hare from the LEXINGTON in action off Rabaul.

February 22, 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General MacArthur out of the Philippines.

February 23, 1942 - First Japanese attack on the U.S. mainland as a submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California.

February 24, 1942 - ENTERPRISE attacks Japanese on Wake Island.

February 26, 1942 - First U.S. carrier, the LANGLEY, is sunk by Japanese bombers.

February 27- March 1 - Japanese naval victory in the Battle of the Java Sea as the largest U.S. warship in the Far East, the HOUSTON, is sunk.

March 4, 1942 - Two Japanese flying boats bomb Pearl Harbor; ENTERPRISE attacks Marcus Island, just 1000 miles from Japan.

March 7, 1942 - British evacuate Rangoon in Burma; Japanese invade Salamaua and Lae on New Guinea.

March 8, 1942 - The Dutch on Java surrender to Japanese.

March 11, 1942 - Gen. MacArthur leaves Corregidor and is flown to Australia. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright becomes the new U.S. commander.

March 18, 1942 - Gen. MacArthur appointed commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater by President Roosevelt.

March 18, 1942 - War Relocation Authority established in the U.S. which eventually will round up 120,000 Japanese-Americans and transport them to barb-wired relocation centers. Despite the internment, over 17,000 Japanese-Americans sign up and fight for the U.S. in World War II in Europe, including the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in U.S. history.

March 23, 1942 - Japanese invade the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

March 24, 1942 - Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific theater.

April 3, 1942 - Japanese attack U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan.

April 6, 1942 - First U.S. troops arrive in Australia.

April 9, 1942 - U.S. forces on Bataan surrender unconditionally to the Japanese.

April 10, 1942 - Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including 12,000 Americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp, resulting in over 5,000 American deaths.

April 18, 1942 - Surprise U.S. 'Doolittle' B-25 air raid from the HORNET against Tokyo boosts Allied morale.

April 29, 1942 - Japanese take central Burma.

May 1, 1942 - Japanese occupy Mandalay in Burma.

May 3, 1942 - Japanese take Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

May 5, 1942 - Japanese prepare to invade Midway and the Aleutian Islands.

May 6, 1942 - Japanese take Corregidor as Gen. Wainwright unconditionally surrenders all U.S. And Filipino forces in the Philippines.

May 7-8, 1942 - Japan suffers its first defeat of the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea off New Guinea - the first time in history that two opposing carrier forces fought only using aircraft without the opposing ships ever sighting each other.

May 12, 1942 - The last U.S. Troops holding out in the Philippines surrender on Mindanao.

May 20, 1942 - Japanese complete the capture of Burma and reach India.

June 4-5, 1942 - Turning point in the war occurs with a decisive victory for the U.S. against Japan in the Battle of Midway as squadrons of U.S. torpedo planes and dive bombers from ENTERPRISE, HORNET, and YORKTOWN attack and destroy four Japanese carriers, a cruiser, and damage another cruiser and two destroyers. U.S. loses YORKTOWN.

锡兰海战在三月底四月初(三月三十一日到四月十日），这个时间表上没有。这里可以看出日本海军和陆军在1942年上半年非常忙碌，四处出击。4/9巴丹美军投降，4/18杜立特尔空袭东京，4/29占领中部缅甸，5月初开始准备中途岛，5/6日军攻占科雷吉多菲律宾美军投降，5/7-8珊瑚海海战，5/20日军占领缅甸全境，6/4-5中途岛。

在这个时间段里面，日本几乎没有可能陆海军协同去占领锡兰。日军的主要用兵方向还是珍珠港和澳大利亚方向。美国还有好几艘航母在太平洋，威胁要比英国在印度洋的舰队大得多，至少东京挨了炸弹。日本一时还不会有兴趣在印度洋下手太多。毕竟帮助德国还算次要的。如果中途岛日本胜了，然后能暂时把美国赶出了太平洋，回头再收拾英国人，那绝对是可能的。但是历史已经没有如果。全当是是上帝站在正义一边吧。