Briefly put, the contention of the story is that Glorious was not rushing back to Scapa to start a court-martial, but to facilitate the mining of Swedish iron ore ports in the Gulf of Bothnia.
Ben Barker, grandson of Ardent's CO, makes his case here.
https://www.hmsglorious.com/
The paywalled Times article is a brief restatement of the above, with delighted reactions from D'Oyly-Hughes' children.
The most rational articles I can find are by Peter Hore, who has the expertise to evaluate the known facts and the reality of 1940.
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hore_(historian)]Peter Hore
The Fleet Air Arm and British Naval Operations
over Norway and Sweden: Part I –- Autumn of 1940:
https://sjohistoriskasamfundet.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/fn68_a05.pdf
Operation Paul – the Fleet Air Arm attack on Luleå in 1940:
https://sjohistoriskasamfundet.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/fn70_a04.pdf
Deputy PM Clement Attlee said that Churchill would come in with 100 ideas, and that 99 of them were useless, and one sheer genius. I think I know where this sits on that scale.
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