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** Only a badass, like Clint Eastwood, could make a movie based on this.
* General William Rupertus predicted that Peleliu would be taken in 4 days. The Japanese held on to it for 74.
* From the [[POV Cam|POV]] of the IJN, the REAL CMoA was sinking the British capital ships, ''Repulse'' and ''Prince of Wales''. This proved that the Japanese Navy had "grown up" seeing the British Royal Navy as its mentor, supplier, and superior, to the point that one of the IJN's most cherished keepsakes was a lock of Nelson's hair. Sinking two of the Royal Navy warships finally proved that once and for all that the IJN was, man for man, an equal to ever other international navy. More remarkably, the normally ruthless Japanese Navy made a rare display of gallantry after this victory. The next day after the sinkings (after allowing the survivors to escape), a squadron of Japanese planes flew to the wreckage of the two ships and dropped wreaths of flowers to honor the British dead.
** Realizing that both the ''Repulse'' and ''Prince of Wales'' were all but helpless against the Japanese airpower, all the planes during the first attack wave initially refused to bomb and torpedo on the British ships. When the ground command demanded their reasons, one pilot responded "I can't. That ships looks just like our ''Kongo'' [A Japanese Battlecruiser].
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