HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse underway with a destroyer on 10 December 1941 (80-G-413520)

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U.S. Navy photo 80-G-413520

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Loss of HMS Prince of Wales (53) and HMS Repulse, 10 December 1941: Photograph taken from a Japanese plane, with the battleship Prince of Wales at far left and the battlecruiser Repulse beyond her. A destroyer, either HMS Express (H61) or HMS Electra (H27), is maneuvering in the foreground.
Note: Dulin and Garzke's Allied Battleships in World War II (ISBN 978-0870211003), page 199, states that this photograph was taken after the first torpedo attack, during which the Prince of Wales sustained heavy torpedo damage.

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