In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, ...
The battlecruiser Hood and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to sail from ... Victorious was a newly commissioned ...
Even more than Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the two British battleships served to convince political and naval authorities of the pre-eminence of airpower in the Pacific.