This was the first time that capital ships were sunk by aerial attack while underway. Japanese naval aircraft were also responsible for the sinkings of Britains warships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. The Japanese attack on American fleet resting at Peral Harbor, Hawaii, on, crippled the battleships of the US Pacific Fleet while Allied navies were devastated during Japan's conquest of Southeast Asia. During the first six months of the war, the Imperial Japanese Navy enjoyed spectacular success inflicting heavy defeats on Allied forces, being undefeated in every battle. In December 1941, at the beginning of the Second World War in the Pacific, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third most powerful navy in the world, and its naval air service was one of the most potent air forces in the world. IJN battleship Yamato running machinery trials off Bungo Strait (outside Sukumo Bay) on 20 October 1941.
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