Just days after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the UK sent Task Force Z to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet headed for Malaya. Later in the war, the Allies wouldn't go anywhere without air cover but that lesson wasn't yet drilled home in 1941. With that gap in coverage, the Japanese aircraft struck and in short order sunk two British ships losing just four of their own planes.
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