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 ...

Bound, in his words, will tell us how the mighty Scharnhorst was finally discovered Mensun Bound, the leader of the mission which discovered the flagship of Admiral Graf von Spee's squadron, was born ...

The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most successful. She and sistership Gneisenau were laid down in 1935 with nine ...

The Scharnhorst was discovered on the third day of the Seabed Constructor's search 98 nautical miles southeast of the Falkland Islands at a depth of 1610 meters. The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust ...

This story is submitted to the People’s War site by a member of Market Harborough Branch, Royal British Legion on behalf of Bill Cotton and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr Cotton ...

The destroyers Ardent and Acasta were escorting the aircraft carrier Glorious from Norway to Scapa Flow when they were sighted by the enemy ships the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. In the ensuing ...