Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
| Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse | |||||||
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| Part of the Pacific War, World War II | |||||||
 Prince of Wales (left, front) and Repulse (left, behind) under attack by Japanese aircraft. A destroyer fabricated by an artist is in the foreground. |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Sir Tom Phillips † John Leach † William Tennant |
Niichi Nakanishi Shichizo Miyauchi Hachiro Shoji |
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| Units involved | |||||||
| Force Z |
Genzan Air Group Kanoya Air Group Mihoro Air Group |
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| Strength | |||||||
| 1 battleship 1 battlecruiser 4 destroyers |
88 aircraft (34 torpedo aircraft, 51 level bombers, 3 scouting aircraft) |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 battleship sunk 1 battlecruiser sunk 840 killed |
4 aircraft destroyed, 28 damaged 2 seaplanes missing 18 killed |
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The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in the Second World War, part of the war in the Pacific, that took place north of Singapore, off the east coast of Malaya, near Kuantan, Pahang, where the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by land-based bombers and torpedo bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 10 December 1941. In Japanese, the engagement was referred to as the Naval Battle off Malaya (マレー沖海戦 Marē-oki kaisen?).
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