Malaya and the Solomon Islands fall ... Battle of Leyte Gulf: In the largest naval battle of the Pacific War, American forces destroy much of the remaining Japanese navy. The first kamikaze ...

The Battle of Malaya was lost; the Battle of Singapore ... They knew how tightly packed are the buildings and docks of the Naval Base right across the Strait from Johore, and therefore what ...

Winston Churchill received a phone call telling him that the HMS Prince of Wales and the HMS Repulse had both been sunk by the Japanese by aircraft. He said “In all the war I never received a more ...