78 years ago, the British won a surprise victory over Nazi Germany in the first major naval battle of World War II
World War II got off to a bad start for the British. About two weeks after Poland surrendered to Germany at the end of September — succumbing to a month of the Nazi blitzkrieg — the British battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a U-boat, claiming more than 800 British sailors. That was followed in short […]







