The Battle of Kuantan 1941 

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Fun fact: The day after the battle, Lt. Haruki flew over the sunken spot and dropped two wreaths of flowers. One for the Japanese pilots shot down and one for the British sailors for their bravery.

Also as a side note, that first torpedo hit to the Prince of Wales was fatal. That unbalanced propeller shaft tore her side open like a tin can.

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To be fair to Phillips, he'd been told that Japanese planes couldn't fly this far. And, just as importantly, that he wouldn't have air cover available that fateful day.

It's so fascinating how time and again, luck and fog of war plays a crucial part in so many battles. Reconnaissance might not be a big department, in the grand scheme of a budget, but having sufficient recon elements is invaluable.

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Great video. It's a shame you didn't mention that the reason HMS Prince of Wales was so severely damaged by the first torpedo strikes was because they struck at the sides of the ship where the shafts to the propellors were. This distorted them and the turbines kept them turning, gouging the ship with its own material. It was a hit eerily similar to the one that slowed Bismarck earlier that year. Also, in a rare moment of honour by the Japanese, they did return the next day to drop wreaths in recognition of how skilfully HMS Repulse dodged so many bombs and torpedoes.

Captain William Tennant also oversaw the evacuation or over 300,000 British and allied troops from Dunkirk, just the year before. What a guy!

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It's heartbreaking that both ships' graves were disturbed multiple times.

Since their sinking, two silver candlesticks, one for each ship, have stood on the altar of St Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore, in memory of the brave sailors.

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Brilliant as always but worth pointing out - due to communications breakdowns the RAAF Brewsters weren't told to sit idle and wait, they were also flying sorties against the invasion further to the north and their "rest" was rotational to being on standby to Admiral Phillips.

Lose of the battleship came just before the channel dash. Interesting in that the Channel Dash is a good antithesis to air dominance over battleship. This battle proves the battleships were vulnerable but even as early as the late 19th they knew that.

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Beautiful video. This battle marked the end of the battleship era.

Tennant is such an MVP, listening to torpedobeat non stop untill dirty cross droped.

This was intense, like watching a movie.

"All pilots. The enemy has no air cover. This will be a simple glorious victory!"

I live in Kuantan near the navy base and now moved to another place near the airforce base. There's alot of WW2 defense fotres alongside our beaches.

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The initial torpedo hit on the HMS Prince of Wales, was even more fortuitous that the one that struck the rudders of the Bismarck 7 months earlier. If it had struck anywhere else than where it actually did, it's likely that PoW's torpedo defence design would have shrugged off the blast. As it was the torpedo hit the support stanchion of the port outermost propeller shaft. This relatively unimportant looking piece of steelwork actually kept the propeller shaft in solid, correct alignment as it passed through various bearings, seals and "stuffing boxes" as it made its way from the ship's engines out of the hull to the propeller itself. With the support stanchion blown away, the now unsupported rapidly spinning propeller shaft oscillated and flexed wildly and in doing so tore apart all of the various hull seals and bearings along its length, destroying the water integrity of sealed compartment after sealed compartment throughout the aft of the ship, meaning that as opposed to one or two compartments/tanks being flooded, a far greater proportion of PoW's integrity was destroyed, on top of which the flooding shut down multiple electrical generators thereby knocking out of action many of PoW's systems, the most vital of which in the emergency flooding situation she then faced being her pumping and ballast systems. Also the absence of the RN armoured aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable, which on the 3rd November 1941, had been damaged in the Carribean as she was about to redeploy to Singapore was a major contributory factor to these events.

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GREAT video. Thanks very much for paying tribute to the sailors and airman of both sides who paid the ultimate price. Greetings from Mexico City.

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Hello , so some facts about kuantan . Kuantan is a city on the east coast of the Malaysian peninsula . It has its own airport but only serves local flights only . Kuantan is part of the state of Pahang . It is also the home of the legislative body for the state of pahang . Like in the USA , each state has its own governor , a legislative body and elected official to run the office . However Malaysians call the governor as MENTERI BESAR .

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Me: I already know all the major battles of WII. I'm a bit of an historian myself... BazBattles: Hold my HMS Prince of Wales.

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