As part of the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, the Germans launched Operation Juno. It saw German forces embarking into the ...

HMS Glorious left Norway in June 1940 with only the destroyers Acasta and Ardent as escorts. The carrier had no combat air ...

Cyril Butters was a 33-year-old steward from Żabbar. When the news reached Malta that HMS Glorious had been sunk by the German battleships Sharnhorst and Gneisenau, many families felt the pain of the ...

This is a short note in memory of my uncle (Dominick John Logue) and the men that died with him between 9th and 10th June 1940 on HMS Glorious, I have searched this site for a mention of this event ...

THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its guns were so powerful that they almost shook the ship to bits. THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its ...

During World War II many Maltese lives were affected by events that were to unfold as the war progressed. A huge shockwave hit Malta on June 8, 1940 with the news that the aircraft carrier HMS ...

Chief Petty Officer Norman Nation R.N. and Alan Nation R.N. My uncle was a Chief Petty Officer on HMS Prince of Wales. "PoW" and "HMS Repulse" were sunk by the Japanese airforce as the two great ...

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The destruction of the aircraft carrier by German battlecruisers was one of the biggest losses of life in British Naval history For one Esher man, the incident and the circumstances around Operation ...

Chief Petty Officer Norman Nation R.N. and Alan Nation R.N. My uncle was a Chief Petty Officer on HMS Prince of Wales. "PoW" and "HMS Repulse" were sunk by the Japanese airforce as the two great ...