How to pronounce “battle cruiser” in English

And I don't like the British Empire analogies but there is one that I do like which is in the course of about a month in Asia in 1941, the country that by and large set the agendain Asia for 350 years, the British, had lost a battle cruiser and a cruiser in the day after Pearl Harbor which were the totem of their power in the region and then lost Singaporewhich was the capital of their power in the region about a month late2r.