MARINES FORTIFY SECRET TROPICAL ANCHORAGE. 1944, ADDU ATOLL, MALDIVES. THE TRIANGULAR GROUP OF CORAL INLETS IN THE MALDIVES WHICH DESPITE THE HANDICAPS OF DISEASE AND JUNGLE, WERE SECRETLY FORTIFIED AS AN ANCHORAGE FOR SHIPS CROSSING THE VAST SPACES OF THE INDIAN OCEAN BY ROYAL MARINES SENT THERE IN SEPTEMBER 1941. - Mounting one of the big coastal defence guns

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