The Battle That Sunk the Prince of Wales and the Repulse

Prime Minister Winston Churchill received a phone call at his bedside from Sir Dudley Pound, the first sea lord. There were no British or American ships in the Indian Ocean, all the Pacific, except the American survivors of Pearl Harbor who were hastening back to California. "Across this vast, expensive waters, Japan was supreme, and we everywhere were weak and naked"

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