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Convoy QP 1 arrived without loss on 19 October 1941. The Germans paid little attention to the British convoys before March 1942, which averaged only eight outbound ships each. [ 23 ] [ b ] In the winter darkness the Luftwaffe had great difficulty in finding Allied convoys, which made attacks on Murmansk and the railway south more practical.
This is a list of convoy codes used by the Allies during World War II There were over 300 convoy routes organized, in all areas of the world; each was designated by a two- or three letter code. List of Allied convoys during World War II by region provides additional information.
The five paragraph order or five paragraph field order is a style of organizing information about a military situation for a unit in the field. It is an element of Canadian Army, United States Army, United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Seabees small unit tactics, and similar order styles are used by military groups around the world.
REDCON-1: Full alert; unit ready to move and fight. WMD alarms and hot loop equipment [2] stowed; OPs pulled in. (A hot loop is a field telephone circuit between the subunits of a company.) All personnel alert and mounted on vehicles; weapons manned. Engines started. Company team is ready to move immediately. REDCON-1.5
In February the passage had to be deferred until a suitable convoy was available. From March to May the destroyer was deployed at Gibraltar awaiting tow, until she was towed back to the United Kingdom on 25 June as part of convoy MKS15. [1] Avon Vale arrived in the UK on 7 July and was taken in hand for repair at HM Dockyard Chatham on 22 July ...
The first convoy, designated UGF 1, was the invasion convoy sailing on 24 October 1942 and arriving on 8 November 1942. The F designated a convoy of faster ships. Thereafter, fast and slow eastbound and westbound convoys on this southern route were given four separate numbering sequences beginning with 2.
Convoy PQ 1 arrived on 11 October 1941 without loss. The Germans paid scant attention to the first eleven British convoys before March 1942, which averaged only eight ships each. [ 16 ] [ a ] In the winter darkness the Luftwaffe had great difficulty in finding Allied convoys, which made attacks on Murmansk and the railway south more practical.
The Sydney convoy had to be diverted to Halifax during winter months. [1] The first regular convoy from the south Atlantic commenced on 31 July. Fast convoys embarked from Sierra Leone—a British protectorate—while slow ones left from Dakar in French West Africa. [1] Gibraltar convoys became regular starting on 26 July. [1]