It is the 70th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and her sister ship HMS Repulse by the Japanese off Kuantan on the Malayan coast, in which 800 lives were lost. A few lucky survivors of this and subsequent POW camps met BBC reporter Bob Walker to look back on those hard times.
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