Fort Mombasa


This 1943 painting shows African troops being drilled in operating a huge gun emplacement to help defend the port of Mombasa in Kenya. Although the threat from Italian and German forces had receded, there was still concern that the Japanese might attack Allied facilities on the East African coast. Image courtesy of Imperial War Museum


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