Chance Encounter by Robert Taylor (AP) REG221 Shura at Qala-I-Bost by Graeme

Shura at Qala-I-Bost by Graeme Lothian

Truant sunk several Axis merchant ships here

Each aircraft carried the ingenious Upkeep mine

This was a powerful unit

but soon found herself surrounded by enemy ships that poured weighty broadsides into her

Chance Encounter by Robert Taylor (AP) REG221 Shura at Qala-I-Bost by GraemeDHM2129AP. Chance Encounter by Robert Taylor. December 7, 1941 was, said President Roosevelt a day of infamy. The surprise attack by Japanese aircraft on that fateful day, brought America into a war that was to become global. The Japanese airstrike was the first of many attacks that day against America and other Allied Forces in the Pacific. Within a few days the British capital ships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk, the Japanese had landed on