The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941...
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Tom Phillips (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
remaining idly at anchor. Morison wrote, that as a result of the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse: ...[T]he half-truth "Capital ships cannot withstand...
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William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) (category Academics of the Royal College of Defence Studies)
Atlantic. He remained in this capacity when the Repulse was sunk by the Japanese along with HMS Prince of Wales in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941...
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ISBN 978-1-84603-389-6. Middlebrook, Martin (1979). The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse. Penguin History. ISBN 0-7139-1042-9. Rasor, Eugene...
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disaster in British military history. The fall of Singapore, the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, and other defeats in 1941–42 all severely undermined...
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HMS Electra (H27) (category E and F-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
including the Battle of the Denmark Strait and the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse. The ship's wreck was discovered in 2003 and had been badly damaged...
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John Leach (Royal Navy officer) (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
film Sink the Bismarck! Leach was played by actor Esmond Knight, who had been on the bridge of Prince of Wales' with Leach during the Battle of the Denmark...
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loss of many warships to aircraft, including the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, the Battle of Taranto, the Attack on Pearl Harbor and numerous...
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William Thomas Alldis Moran (category Graduates of the Royal Australian Naval College)
Middlebrook, & Patrick Mahoney, 1979, Battleship: The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse (Book Club ed.), New York , Charles Scribner's Sons...
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Force Z (category Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War II)
consisting of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse and accompanying destroyers. Assembled in 1941, the purpose of the group...
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Yura was involved in the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, and covered the landings of Japanese troops in Malaya and Sarawak. Afterwards, she participated...
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ISBN 978-1591141204. Middlebrook, Martin and Mahoney, Patrick "Battleship: The Sinking of the Prince Of Wales and the Repulse", Scribner's: New York, 1979, OCLC 5843076...
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Sarawak) and Australia. The fall of Singapore to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, which was preceded by the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, severely...
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Second World War, which included events such as the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse and the Fall of Singapore, as well as the subsequent Suez Crisis...
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Renown-class battlecruiser (category Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy)
bombers hit Repulse with three more torpedoes and the ship capsized with the loss of 508 officers and men. The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse contributed...
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Miyoshi Nabeta (category Imperial Japanese Navy personnel of World War II)
Nabeta participated in the Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse off the south-east coast of Malay Peninsula. He led a division of torpedo-armed Mitsubishi...
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This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns...
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Guy Griffiths (admiral) (category Military personnel from New South Wales)
officer of the Royal Australian Navy. After serving in the Second World War and surviving the sinking of HMS Repulse in 1941, he served in the Korean and Vietnam...
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the 78th anniversary of the sinking of her predecessor, a World War II era battleship which was lost in action along with HMS Repulse in 1941. She is the...
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Zhang Zizhong (category Recipients of the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun)
Incident Battle of Tai'erzhuang Battle of Wuhan Along with Royal Navy Admiral Tom Phillips, killed in the Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse in 1941, Red...
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Task force (category Ad hoc units and formations)
destruction of its two capital ships in the Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse. Force 1 Formed to deal with the Tirpitz Sortie against convoys PQ 12 and QP8...
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Malayan campaign (redirect from Invasion of Malaya)
Percival and resistance by Thai police. Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse (10 December 1941) The British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser...
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the attackers' favor. Three days later, with the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse off the coast of Malaya, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
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New Orleans-class cruiser (category World War II cruisers of the United States)
sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse off Malaya that this war would be decided with air power. As soon as available, the quadruple 1.1 in guns and the...
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economical speed of 21 knots instead of dashing on top speed to France. From the pursuing Home Fleet, Prince of Wales, Repulse, Victorious and the four cruisers...
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Southeast Asia, and the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse by Japanese land-based aircraft proved in finality that aircraft, and aircraft carrying...
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scuttled as part of the breakwater around the Allied Mulberry harbours. The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse off the coast of Malaya in 1941 demonstrated...
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HMS Richmond (F239) (category Frigates of the United Kingdom)
and was also a participant in the IMEX Asia 2011. After Singapore, she rendered honours to the fallen of Force Z (see the Sinking of Prince of Wales and...
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capabilities, as in the Battle of Taranto, the Battle of Pearl Harbor, and the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse. Following World War II, guided...
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Battle off Endau (redirect from Battle of Endau)
of the Battle of Malaya, it was the first notable naval engagement since the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse on...
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