History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach
World War II: Royal Navy Goes Down-1941-42
TV-14
S1 • E21 30mExamine two of the worst naval disasters in the Britain's history, the causes of which include both grossly underestimating and overestimating the enemy: the sinking of the Royal Navy's most technologically sophisticated battleship by Japanese bombers in December 1941 and the destruction of merchant ships in Convoy PQ 17 by Germans in July 1942.