Word: torpedoed
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Wave after wave of torpedo bombers swooped in on the Repulse. The Wales signaled, asking whether she had been hit. Replied the Repulse: "We have avoided 19 torpedoes till now, thanks to Providence...
...Stand by for barrage,' comes over the ship's communication system. One plane is circling around. It's now at 300 or 400 yards, approaching us from the port side. It's coming closer headon, and I see a torpedo drop. A watcher shouts, 'Stand by for torpedo,' and the tin fish is streaking directly...
...torpedo struck the side on which I was standing, about twenty yards astern of my position. It felt like the ship had crashed into a well-rooted dock. It threw me four feet across the deck, but I did not fall, and I did not feel any explosion-just this very great...
...After the first torpedo, the communications system coolly announced: 'Blow up your lifebelts.' I was in this process when the second torpedo struck, and the settling ship and crazy angle were so apparent that I didn't continue blowing the belt...
Lesson. The British who survived the battle were not only exhausted; they were wiser men. They had seen 36 Japanese high-level bombers and 50 Japanese torpedo-bombers accomplish in a matter of minutes as much as Adolf Hitler's submarines and Stukas had been able to accomplish in two years of war-i.e., sink two capital ships...