Episode 148 - HMS Prince of Wales

Beyond the Breakers

Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 5Ep. 3

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Episode description

This week we are discussing a smashingly successful air attack conducted by the Empire of Japan in December 1941 (but not that one).

Jump to around 14:30 to get right to the action

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Sources:

Bell, Christopher M. “The ‘Singapore Strategy’ and the Deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the Dispatch of Force Z.” The English Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 467, Jun 2001, pp. 604 - 634.

Garzke, William H., Robert O. Dulin, and Kevin V. Denlay. "Death of a Battleship: The Loss of HMS Prince of Wales, December 10, 1941 - A Marine Forensic Analysis of the Sinking." 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20220327195109/https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/hms/prince_of_wales/death-of-a-battleship-2012-update.pdf

Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944 - 1945. Norton, 2020.

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