Destruction of the Glorious

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Start: Saturday June 8, 1940

The nightmare of a carrier's chief turned true: the British Glorious, in charge of covering the evacuation of northern Norway, came to face the big guns of two German battlecruisers. She was the only fleet carrier sunk by gunfire during the war.

Place: Norway

Type: Gun battle

Related battles: Operation "Juno", Raid in Arctic

The Scharnhorst fires with he forward batteries during the encounter with the Glorious

	Britain	Germany
Forces	D'Oyly-Hughes: 1 carrier, 2 destroyers.	Marschall: 2 battlecruisers.
Losses	1 carrier, 2 destroyers lost.	1 battlecruiser damaged.

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