S5E2: The Tragedy Of HMS Glorious | Secret History

Duration: 50'26''

Synopsis

The program tells the story of the sinking on June 8, 1940, of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two escort destroyers off the coast of Norway by the two German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

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