Japanese and British veterans of World War II reunited Friday to revisit the last major naval battle of the war.
On the night of May 15, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy ships Haguro and Kamikaze found themselves surrounded by five British destroyers in the northern Malacca Strait.
By the early hours of the next day, the heavy cruiser Haguro, hit by three torpedoes, went down with with three-quarters of its 1,200 officers and men. The destroyer Kamikaze was also badly hit, losing 27 of its crew.