Key Point: While World War II was the era where the aircraft carrier supplanted the battleship as the most prestigious vehicle for naval operations, the old class still had one light instance of glory ...

It’s a crisp June evening in the Norwegian Sea. Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes surveys the horizon as the ship steams southward, flanked by the destroyers ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only extraordinary circumstances—particularly the lack of Combat Air Patrol—made the ambush of the Glorious possible by two large capital ships on a clear day. Only ...