The German 88mm gun is remembered as a tank killer—but its deadliest moment came far from the battlefield. During a night raid on Tobruk, HMS Sikh moved dangerously close to shore, assuming land-based ...

The German 88mm gun was built to shoot down bombers, not sink warships. But during the ill-fated Allied raid on Tobruk in 1942, HMS Sikh sailed within range of hidden coastal batteries and paid the ...