Force Z
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We’ve talked a surprising bit about the grim end of Force Z here on the blog. I give it yet another treatment at the Diplomat on the 79th anniversary of the day (really a day late because of the time change):
Seventy-nine years ago today, Japanese aircraft found and destroyed Force Z, consisting of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse. The battle confirmed Japan’s naval dominance over the South China Sea but became famous as a marker of the shift of naval power from the battleship to the aircraft carrier. The real story, as is often the case, is considerably more complicated.