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Its true to say that after the RN lost the (brand new) battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse to Japanese aircraft during the fall of Singapore in late 1941, there was was not much of a RN Far East fleet.
Its also farily well established that the UK desperately wanted the US to enter the war. To that extent, its known Churchill knew of the imminnet attack at Pearl Harbour. THere are some theories that suggest Roosevelt did to.
Dhoward- is it not true that the German U-Boat service was THE most fatal branch of any military in WW2? I recall reading this somewhere, and that 75% of men who were served were killed. Do you know?
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Stuart
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