El portaaviones HMS Glorious fue hundido por los acorazados alemanes Scharnhorst y Gneisenau el 8 de junio de 1940. | Historia Naval Segunda Guerra Mundial

HMS Glorious: History of a Controversy (Full Documentary) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Late in the afternoon of June 8th, 1940, the Royal Navy suffered one of its most devastating defeats of the Second World War. HMS Glorious, one of Britain's largest and fastest aircraft carriers, was sunk along with her escorting destroyers HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta. The three British warships were taking part in Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Norway that had been taking place simultaneously with the

Portaaviones HMS Glorious operando cerca a Noruega. Posiblemente el 1 de Mayo de 1940. Horas más tarde el buque junto al portaaviones HMS ArK Royal serían atacados por bombarderos alemanes. Un mes después fue hundido por los Acorazados alemanes Scharnhorst y Gneisenau, convirtiéndose en el único portaaviones inglés hundido por disparos de superficie enemigos durante la Guerra. #battleship #SGM #GuerraMundial #DKM #regiamarina #MarineNationale #Marine #IJN #JapaneseNavy #segundaguerramundial #gue

HMS Glory In Action Aka HMS Glory And Korean Battle Front (1953) HMS Glory (R62) was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy laid down on 27 August 1942 by Harland and Wolff at Belfast. She was launched on 27 November 1943 by Lady Cynthia Brooke, wife of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. The ship was commissioned on 2 April 1945, and left for the Pacific with an air wing of Barracudas (837 Naval Air Squadron) and Corsairs (1831 Naval Air Squadron). At Sydney, she joined