Battle of the Malay Sea - Malay Okikaisen

Japanese: マレー沖海戦 - マレーおきかいせん
Battle of the Malay Sea - Malay Okikaisen
On December 10, 1941, at the beginning of the Pacific War, 84 Japanese Navy medium attack aircraft sank the British Eastern Fleet's new battleship Prince of Wales and fast battleship Repulse off the coast of Malaya. At the start of the war, the British Eastern Fleet was based in Singapore and tasked with attacking Japanese convoys, but Japanese aircraft taking off from near Saigon captured two battleships and sank them mainly with torpedoes. As a result, the Japanese military gained control of the seas from the South China Sea to the Straits of Malacca, eliminating the naval threat to the execution of the Malayan Campaign. This result also established the decisive superiority of aircraft over battleships.

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Japanese:
1941年 12月 10日,太平洋戦争の緒戦において,日本海軍の中型攻撃機 84機が,イギリス東洋艦隊の新鋭戦艦『プリンス・オブ・ウェールズ』と高速戦艦『レパルス』をマレー沖で撃沈した海戦。開戦と同時にイギリス東洋艦隊は,シンガポールを基地として日本輸送船団攻撃の任にあたっていたが,サイゴン付近から飛立った日本機は,2戦艦を捕捉,おもに魚雷で撃沈した。これにより,日本軍は南シナ海からマラッカ海峡にいたる制海権を得て,マレー作戦遂行に対する海からの脅威を取除いた。また,この成果は,戦艦に対する航空機の優位を決定的なものにした。

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