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| Dec. 1941: Unsuccessful campaign of Formation Z. Road to disaster |
| 2023-02-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: Video is translatable into English [ColonelCassad] Military historian Maxim Tokarev on the prerequisites for the catastrophe of the British fleet in December 1941 after the start of the war in the Pacific Ocean. Annotation: The story of the military historian Maxim Tokarev, about the prehistory of the "Battle of Kuantan" - the battle that took place on December 10, 1941 in the South China Sea between the formation of Japanese base aviation and the British "Formation Z" of Admiral Thomas Philips as part of the battleship "Prince of Wales ”, the battlecruiser Repulse, also known as the Battle in the Gulf of Thailand. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 #1 Was this to War Plan Orange? Posted by: Mercutio 2023-02-02 12:10 Mercutio, WPO went out the window when the first Japanese plane appeared over Pearl Harbor - its centerpiece was the clash of the USN and IJN battlelines in the western Pacific, and without those battleships it wasn't going to happen. Force Z actually predates the start of hostilities in the Pacific - the plan was to get at least one RN battleforce into position to assist Singapore and in theory aid the US. IIRC they sailed in late October, arriving December 2nd. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2023-02-02 14:08 |
| #1 Was this to War Plan Orange? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-02-02 12:10 |