Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes surveys the horizon as the ship steams southward, flanked by the destroyers hms Ardent and hms Acasta. The waters are calm, ...
As part of the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, the Germans launched Operation Juno. It saw German forces embarking into the ...
Only one crew member from the Ardent, two from the Acasta, and thirty-six from the Glorious survived to be picked up by Norwegian and German forces. 1,596 Royal Navy and Air Force personnel died, many ...
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 ...
From a small beginning in 1964, this quarterly journal has become internationally recognized as the most authoritative English-language publication in the warship field. Each issue averages 100 pages, ...