Force Z...RSRD

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Just watch the story of the battle on the history channel.."Battleships". Amazing they still went in without any air power.

They were though to be out of range, and also, I think they were sunk, like, in the first or second day of the war (against the japanese). WSC in his memoirs says that when they declared war against japan, there was a cabinet meeting, where they discussed the proper use of the pacific naval power - namely the prince of wales and the repulse. So that night churchill went to sleep, and in the early hours of the morning, someone called him and told him that they had been sunk. He narrates this as being the worst shock he ever got during the war.