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How these two Royal Navy veterans survived attacks by Japan 81 years ago

Watch: Survivors of the 1941 sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repule spoke to Forces News in 2021.

On 10 December 1941, the Royal Navy lost two warships in a Japanese attack.

HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy with the loss of more than 800 crew.

The attack by Japanese bombers was a blow to the British war effort and, in the video above, two veterans spoke in 2021 about their experience in surviving the sinkings.

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