Just two days after the start of the invasion of Malaya, Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk 50 miles off the coast of Kuantan in Pahang, by a force of Japanese bombers and torpedo bomber aircraft, in the worst British naval defeat of World War II.
Later that day, at around 14 30, the three ships came under attack by a force of British bombers, though the bombers failed to make any hits.
Schnaufer achieved his 100th victory on 9 October 1944, when he claimed two bombers shot down from an attack force of 415 bombers targeting Bochum.
A large force of Japanese bombers and fighters approached Guadalcanal, hoping to obliterate the airstrip.
In Moscow, the commander of the Russian Air Force, Gen. Anatoly Kornukov, said one way Russia might respond to a American withdrawal from the ABM treaty would be to build up its force of strategic bombers.
As Flight Leader of his formation with four P-40's they intercepted an enemy force of nine bombers and multiple fighters successfully destroying eight aircraft before returning to base safely.
On 5 April, Japanese aircraft spotted Dorsetshire and her sister while en route to Colombo; a force of dive bombers then attacked the two ships and sank them.
