Battle of Wake Island Contributor:C. Peter Chen ww2dbaseAfter the successful attacks on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii Islands, Philippine Islands, British Malaya, and Guam in Mariana Islands, Rear Admiral Kajioka Sadamichi was tasked to take Wake Atoll, a United States Marine Corps base, with three li...
HMS King George V, HMS Prince Of Wales, HMS Duke Of York, HMS Anson, HMS Howe, HMS Temeraire, HMS Conqueror, HMS Thunderer, HMS Nelson, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Warspite, HMS Barham, HMS Malaya, HMS Valiant, HMS Royal Sovereign, HMS Revenge, HMS Resolution, HMS Ramillies, HMS Royal ...
The fleet consisted of battleship HMS Warspite, battleship HMS Valiant, battleship HMS Malaya, battleship HMS Ramillies, aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, 12 cruisers, 16 destroyers, and 6 submarines; they escorted four British transport ships. 19 Dec 1940 British ...
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(on 1st January 1915, the British Expeditionary Force had been officially subdivided into two "Armies," commanded respectively by Sir Douglas Haig and Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien) should attack the German lines covering Lille, and before the end of that month preparations for the attack were begun....
The Worcesters finally arrived at the small village of Puth , 2km east of Geleen, very late that same evening. On the 13th the Battalion marched to the mining town of Brunssum, about 7 km to the east where 43rd Division headquarters had already been established. On the 16th November ...
and one four-gun turret aft. Three of them participated in surface battles, which were what they were designed for. Only one did not survive WW2; battleship Prince of Wales was lost to Japanese air attack during the Battle off Kuantan off Malaya during the opening days of the Pacific War...
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Near the end of WW2, Queen Elizabeth returned to Britain in Jul 1945. She was decommissioned in Mar 1948 and was scrapped in Jul 1948.Source: Wikipedia. Last Major Revision: May 2007Battleship Queen Elizabeth Interactive Map+− Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap...
ww2dbaseAt the beginning of the Pacific War, Kongo and Haruna covered the invasions at Malaya and the Philippine Islands, and then they moved on with the invasion fleet to Java, providing distant cover. Meanwhile, Hiei and Kirishima covered the carrier force. In Mar-Apr 1942, all four ships...