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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-413520

Loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, 10 December 1941


Photograph taken from a Japanese plane, with Prince of Wales at far left and Repulse beyond her. A destroyer, either Express or Electra, is maneuvering in the foreground.
Dulin and Garzke's "Allied Battleships in World War II", page 199, states that this photograph was taken "after the first torpedo attack, during which the Prince of Wales sustained heavy torpedo damage."

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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28 November 2000