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Malaya served in the Mediterranean in 1940, escorting convoys and operating against the Italian fleet. Malaya's second big action of her career, and her first of World War II, was the Battle of Calabria, on 9 June 1940. British forces engaged an Italian fleet, including the battleships Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare.
The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off the east coast of the British colonies of Malaya (present-day Malaysia) and the Straits Settlements (present-day Singapore and its coastal towns), 70 miles (61 nautical miles; 110 kilometres) east of Kuantan, Pahang.
Buffaloes over Singapore: RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Dutch Brewster Fighters in Action Over Malaya and the East Indies 1941–1942. London: Grub Street. ISBN 978-1-904010-32-6. Dixon, Norman F, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, London, 1976; Falk, Stanley L. (1975). Seventy days to Singapore: The Malayan Campaign, 1941–1942. London: Hale.
HMS Warspite off Salerno, 1943. By the Second World War, the class were showing their age. Barham and Malaya, the least-modernized of the class, were at a disadvantage compared to modern battleships. In spite of this, Malaya prevented an attack on a transatlantic convoy by the modern German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau by her ...
It arrived at Ceylon on 29 November and was joined by Repulse, [36] and the destroyers HMS Encounter and HMS Jupiter; [34] the destroyers were transfers from the Mediterranean Fleet. [32] Phillips disembarked and flew ahead to Singapore to meet with local commanders; [ 34 ] on 4 December he also flew to the Philippines to meet with American ...
Operation Grog was the name assigned to the British naval and air bombardment of Genoa and La Spezia on 9 February 1941, by the Royal Navy's Force H, consisting of the battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, battlecruiser HMS Renown, and light cruiser HMS Sheffield screened by ten fleet destroyers including HMS Fearless, HMS Foxhound, HMS Foresight, HMS Fury, HMS Firedrake and ...
HMS Pelandok/HMS Malaya UK: 1 [5] Acquired in 1949. Former LCT 341 in Royal Navy service. Originally named as HMS Pelandok but then renamed as HMS Malaya. Scrapped. LCG (L) Landing Ship Tank: HMS Sri Perlis UK: 1 [5] Acquired in 1949. Former LCG 450 in Royal Navy service. Renamed as HMS Sri Perlis. Scrapped. Auxiliary ships Bunga Mas Lima ...
Royal Air Force stations of World War II in British Malaya (16 P) Pages in category "Military units and formations in British Malaya in World War II" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total.