In the mid-1930s, Europe was on the brink of another colossal war that would plunge large parts of the planet into terror and darkness. By 1936, Hitler had torn up ...

Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes surveys the horizon as the ship steams southward, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In the afternoon of June 8, 1940, the British navy suffered one of its worst naval disasters. The aircraft carrier HMS Glorious along with its two destroyer escorts HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta were sunk ...

This story has been written onto the BBC People’s War site by CSV Storygatherer Robin.D.Bailey on behalf of the author Victor Donald Delves. They fully understand the terms and conditions of the site.

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 ...

This story has been written onto the BBC People’s War site by CSV Storygatherer Robin.D.Bailey on behalf of the author Victor Donald Delves. They fully understand the terms and conditions of the site.

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 ...