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Sep 26, 2023 · Thousands of American and Japanese forces battled for four days in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in a key American victory that enabled the U.S. to establish dominance in the Pacific. Now, 81 years later, researchers have released new photos and videos of the wreckage from the Battle of Midway.
Sep 22, 2023 · In June of 1942, thousands of American and Japanese forces faced off in the Pacific Ocean in a deadly World War II conflict known as the Battle of Midway. After four days of fighting, the...
Oct 18, 2014 · It's well known how badly Japanese soldiers treated POWs in WW2, but women and children interned in South-East Asia are often forgotten.
Nora Moller - date of departure from Singapore not known but attacked by Japanese aircraft off Palembang Feb 3rd, so might have left Feb 1st or 2nd. 57 passengers including women and children. Survivors rescued by HMAS Hobart and HMAS Tenedos and taken to TP.
The 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. In Japan, the engagement was referred to as the Naval Battle of Malaya (マレー沖海戦, Marē-oki kaisen).
- 10 December 1941
- Japanese victory
A Japanese aerial photograph showing HMS PRINCE OF WALES (top) and HMS REPULSE during the early stages of the attack in which they were sunk. HMS REPULSE had just been hit for the first time (12.20 hours).
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This page presents photographs related to the rescue of survivors of the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu and cruiser Mikuma. For coverage of the sinking of Mikuma and Hiryu, see: Sinking of the Japanese Cruiser Mikuma, 6 June 1942; and. Hiryu Bombed, Abandoned and Sunk, 4-5 June 1942.
