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VN_HMS_Ark_Royal_III 2024-05-06

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Thread starter stuart277
Start date May 6, 2024

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The Ark Royal was frequently in the Newspaper headlines and received many battle honours. The honour of the first enemy aircraft shot down by a Fleet Air Arm aircraft went to one of Ark's Blackburn Skuas in late September 1939, then on 10 April 1940 her aircraft achieved another first when they bombed and sank the German light cruiser Konigsberg - the first instance of a major vessel being sunk by air attack.

After participating in the ill-fated Norwegian campaign, Ark Royal moved to the...