Operation Banquet (Padang)

Operation Banquet
Part of the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War

Operation Banquet
Date24 August 1944
Location
Padang, Netherlands East Indies
00°57′00″S 100°21′11″E / 0.95000°S 100.35306°E / -0.95000; 100.35306
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
 United Kingdom  Japan
Commanders and leaders
Clement Moody Unknown
Strength
20–32 bombers
19–31 fighters
2 aircraft carriers
1 battleship
2 cruisers
5 destroyers
1 submarine		 Anti-aircraft defences
Casualties and losses
1 fighter destroyed Ground targets damaged

Operation Banquet was a British naval operation in the Second World War, commanded by Rear Admiral Clement Moody. The objective was to bomb Japanese positions in and around Padang, on the south-western coast of Sumatra, in Indonesia, on 24 August 1944. The primary targets of the attack, Padang airfield, the Indaroeng cement works, and the harbor facilities and shipping at Emmahaven were hit.

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