With an active service life of some two hundreds day durning 1941, the HMS Prince of Wales, The UK's newest battleship, commissioned on March 31, 1941, took part in the pursuit of the German battleship Bismarck in May, carried Winston Churchill to the Atlantic Conference in August and was sunk in action by teh Japanese off Malaya on December 10.
source is "Dirty Little Secrets of World War Two"
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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