I remember as a kid I hated history and really did not care about WW2 or what happened before I was born, it just did not matter to me.
Like many other parts of getting older and wiser, history is fascinating to me now. In all the past TV shows I had seen about the war in the Pacific with Japan I never heard that the Japs sunk tow of the premier British battleships.
The history taught and shown most of the time only concerned the American part of the fight. They never even mentioned the British losses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse