01355cam a2200253 4500 506874666 TxAuBib 20210720120000.0 210720|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781472846600 1472846605 TxAuBib Sinking force Z 1941 : The day the Imperial Japanese Navy Killed the Battleship. 2021 Osprey Publishing Boombury Publishing Plc Oxford 9PLc.,UK. 7 div. : 96 pages ; 6.5x9. In late 1941, war was looming with Japan, and Britain's empire n southeast Asia was at risk. The British government decided to send to Singapore a powerful naval group, Force Z,headed by the state-of-the-art battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse. Crucially, however, the task force lacked air cover. Two days after the Pearl Harbor attack, Japanese scout planes detected Force Z as it steamed towards the Japanese invasion fleet off Malaya. Unlike at Pearl Harbor, these Battleships could manoeuvre in the open sea, and their anti-aircraft defences were ready. 20210720. World War II. aircraft carrier. naval warfare. battleship. Konstam, Angus, 2021. Tooby, Adam, illustrator.