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The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia. There were 78 convoys between August 1941 and May 1945, [1] sailing via several seas of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans ...
14-knot UC convoys of tankers and fast cargo ships with some troopships: UC: Liverpool to Caribbean (later New York City) 15 February 1943 3 June 1945 71 14-knot convoys of tankers with some fast cargo ships: UGF: Chesapeake Bay to Mediterranean 24 October 1942 8 April 1945 22 faster ships - (UGF-1) was the invasion force for Operation Torch: UGS
Convoy PQ 17 was an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War. On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the port of Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union. The convoy was located by German forces on 1 July, shadowed and attacked.
Russian map showing Arctic convoy routes from Britain and Iceland, past Norway to the Barents Sea and northern Russian ports After Operation Barbarossa , the German invasion of the USSR, began on 22 June 1941, the UK and USSR signed an agreement in July that they would "render each other assistance and support of all kinds in the present war ...
RN Atlantic convoy escort (23 September 1943 – 25 March 1944) RN: HMS Tracker (CVE/BAVG-6/D24) RN Atlantic convoy escort of military convoy from Gibraltar to UK (30 Sept – 7 October 1943) Convoy MKF24 RN: HMS Attacker (CVE-7/D02) Air Squadrons 886 and 879; USN transport of aircraft and aircrews in Pacific (Oct 1943 – September 1945) USN:
The Requiem on Convoy PQ-17, Russian novel by Valentin Pikul; Memoirs of Chief Steward Horace Carswell DSM, MM, BEM during Convoy PQ.17; Coxswain Sid Kerslake of armed trawler "Northern Gem" in PQ.17; Convoy PQ.17, a primary source diary and supporting material by Jack Bowman, ERA aboard HMS La Malouine. PQ 17 at Convoyweb; Helgason, Gudmundur.
26 February 1943: Convoy JW 53 arrived in Kola Bay with one ship damaged by KG 30 Ju 88s. StG 5 Ju 87s damaged three more ships from the convoy on 27 and 28 February; air attacks on 6 and 13 March damaged another ship and sank 7173-ton Ocean Freedom. [85] 5 March 1943: U-255 sank Liberty ship Richard Bland and 4978-ton Executive from convoy RA 53.
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