It’s a crisp June evening in the Norwegian Sea. Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes ...

Key Points and Summary - In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster ...

At 4 p.m. on June 8, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was cruising west across the Norwegian Sea towards the British naval base of Scapa Flow when her lookout spotted two grey blips over a ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Only extraordinary circumstances—particularly the lack of Combat Air Patrol—made the ambush of the Glorious possible by two large capital ships on a clear day. For ...