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Show ?a??!c3!-'rs Kol Obsolete The Japanese sinking of the British bat leJhip Prince of Wales and batik cruiser Repulse convinced many Americans that the day of the .battleship A'aS gome. They noted ihaj the British Brit-ish battlsEhips could not prevent ilhs Nazi air-supported mvae'ioim of Norway, that British bat.le-hips bat.le-hips coufd r.o'. stop the Germans Ger-mans a! Crete and that tine . Ja-pane.e Ja-pane.e inad s-ucceSiijully crip.p.ed a 'numb r o Uni "ed States bat-.kehips bat-.kehips at Pearl Harbor. The &:r,nan flight ihroug.h Dover Strait, howev.r, has d.'.-rupted d.'.-rupted tine contention that ba.-'e?i ba.-'e?i lps iave beceme obsolete. Is row zv'.d nt ,ihat aircraf ..'not top attle hips, if the k,t. r are . ro'. ed wi'.h fig'nte: aircraft. The Bri hh used abo.ut 60 ";i us 'n an or! to -top Mre ... .;, . 11; : c. '- ombers and lorpeia'io plane.' .Aere iri ercepted iy G ma ursuit pknes. Thus, tlh' battle rip remains '.he .eaokbon.e rf the t'leet, and the a r ane and air-place carrier 'becomes, 'be-comes, only, an integral part of the flee'., just as the submarine became in ihe laist tAlar. |