There are worse things than breaking radio silence... December 10th, 1941. South China Sea. Two days after Pearl Harbor, the shadow-boxing with the Japanese invasion fleet crawling toward Malaya was over. Forze Z, built around the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse, had been under attack by waves of land-based bombers for an hour. Prince of Wales was already crippled, its advanced AA fire control systems unable to cope with tropical conditions, when Repulse's captain, William Tennant did what his admiral seemed incapable of doing, he broke radio silence and requested air support from their abandoned fighter screen. But soon after that his zig-zagging battlecruiser got mortally wounded by a pattern of aerial torpedoes and went down with great loss of life. Ten Buffalos of 453 Squadron RAAF arrived in an empty sky just as the last of the pair, the ruined 'Prince of Wales,' rolled over and sank. Summoned too late, the fighters could do nothing but circle the oil-blackened ocean while crowded destroyers edged through the mess of oil and debris from the two capital ships, gathering more survivors... It was the first time that aircraft alone had sunk capital ships at sea. Of course it wasn't over yet. War in the Pacific was just two days old and the survivors were bound for Singapore... and supposed "safety." Rendered in Vue 8 Esprit The Brewster Buffalo is my model with some further tweaking of the 453 Squadron texture. The "oil slick" is a flattened metablob object with a volumetric "smoke" material Here Beyond VR's WW2 destroyer represents the destroyer screen