battle
- one of the most critical naval actions of the Twentieth Century - as
much as any event presaged the dissolution of the British Empire and the
end of European supremacy in the East.
Force
Z catastrophe simultaneously brought to a spectacular - and tragic - close
the epoch of the gun-armed capital ship.
The
'Repulse'
The attacking Japanese aircraft
The Destruction of Force Z - a timeline
Three
Accounts of the Battle
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The
Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944
The Battle for Leyte Gulf, 23-26 October 1944
Dave
James' Naval & Aviation Pages
e-mail:
compass@dircon.co.uk
Samuel Eliot Morison - from "History of US Naval Operations in World War II"
The Japanese Aircraft
Mitsubishi
G3M 'Nell'Mitsubishi
G4M 'Betty'
