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Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
The
sinking of
Prince of Wales
and
Repulse
was a
Second World War
naval engagement
that took place north of Singapore, off the east coast of
Malaya
, near
Kuantan
,
Pahang
, where the British
Royal Navy
battleship
and
battlecruiser
were sunk by land-based
bombers
and
torpedo bombers
of the
Imperial Japanese Navy
on 10 December 1941. In Japanese, the engagement was referred to as the .
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