Penenggelaman Prince of Wales dan Repulse

**Penenggelaman ''Prince of Wales'' dan ''Repulse*** adalah sebuah [[peperangan angkatan laut|pertempuran angkatan laut]] [[Perang Dunia Kedua]] yang terjadi di utara Singapura, lepas pesisir timur [[Malaya Britania|Malaya]], dekat [[Kuantan]], [[Pahang]], di mana [[kapal tempur]] [[Angkatan Laut Kerajaan Inggris]]  dan [[kapal jelajah tempur]]  ditenggelamkan oleh [[pengebom]] dan [[pengebom torpedo]] yang berbasis di darat dari [[Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang]] pada 10 Desember 1941. Di Jepang, pertempuran tersebut disebut sebagai .

Serangan Angkatan Laut Jepang terhadap kapal angkatan laut Inggris ini dilakukan oleh 59 Mitsubishi G3M dan 26 Mitsubishi G4M, dengan pihak Inggris kehilangan dua kapal perang tersebut di atas dan 840 orang tewas dalam aksi, dan pihak Jepang mengalami 5 pesawat ditembak jatuh dan 18 orang tewas dalam aksi.

Pertempuran ini membuktikan gagasan para pendukung perang udara, termasuk Laksamana Isoroku Yamamoto dari Angkatan Laut Jepang, bahwa medan pertempuran laut di masa depan akan berada di udara. Dalam pertempuran tersebut, pemimpin Inggris saat itu Winston Churchill menulis dalam bukunya bahwa hilangnya kedua kapal ini dalam Pertempuran Teluk Malaya merupakan pengalaman paling mengejutkan dalam Perang Dunia II.

== Catatan ==


== Referensi ==
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* Jack Greene, *War at Sea, Pearl Harbor to Midway*, 1988. (The Malayan Campaign). Combined Books. ISBN 0-8317-1257-0.
* Horodyski, Joseph M. "British Gamble in Asian Waters." <u>[[Military Heritage]]</u>. December 2001. Volume 3, No. 3: 68–77 (sinking of the British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse by Japanese on 10 December 1941 upon US entry into World War II).
* Richard Hough, *The Hunting of Force Z: the brief, controversial life of the modern battleship and its tragic close with the destruction of the "Prince of Wales" and "Repulse"*.
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* Stephen, Martin. *Sea Battles in Close-up*, p.&nbsp;99–114. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan, 1988.
* Alan Matthews, *Sailors' Tales: Life Onboard HMS Repulse During World War Two* ISBN 0-9531217-0-4.
* [[Martin Middlebrook]] and Patrick Mahoney, *Battleship: The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse*. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. Contains details of the attack and damage sustained, and tables of survivors and losses.
* [[Samuel Eliot Morison]], *History of United States Naval Operations in World War II*, Volume III, "The Rising Sun in the Pacific".
* V. E. Tarrant, *King George V class Battleships*, Arms and Armour Press, 1991, ISBN 1-85409-524-2.
* William Garzke and Robert Dulin, *Battleships. Allied Battleships in World War II*. United States Naval Institute. 1980. ISBN 0-87021-100-5. Detailed analysis of the sinking using the data available at the time.
* Arthur Nicholoson. *Hostages to Fortune*. Sutton Publishing. 2005 ISBN 0-7509-3948-6.
* Survey report compiled after Expedition 'Job 74', May 2007.
* *Death of A Battleship: A Re-analysis of the Tragic Loss of HMS Prince of Wales*. William Garzke, Robert Dulin, Kevin Denlay and members of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Marine Forensic Committee. A post 2007 marine forensics analysis of the loss of HMS Prince of Wales taking all of the most recent information into account.
* Paul S. Dull, *A battle history of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945*, Naval Institute Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59114-219-5.
* Frank Owen, *The Fall of Singapore'', Penguin Books, 2001, ISBN 0-14-139133-2.

## Pranala luar

* Order of battle
* Force Z Survivors Association 
* Personal Reports by Crew
* London Gazette Officers reports 
* Link to a survey report compiled after Expedition 'Job 74', May 2007  
* Description of lower hull indentation damage on wreck of HMS Prince of Wales
* http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/hms/prince_of_wales/pow-stern-damage.pdf
* New analysis of the loss of Prince of Wales, by Garzke, Dulin and Denlay