Convoy PQ 18 was the last of the PQ/QP series of arctic convoys during the Second World War, bound from US and British ports via Reykjavík in Iceland...
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Convoy PQ 18 was an Arctic convoy of forty Allied freighters from Scotland and Iceland to Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany...
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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...
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convoy of the series, Convoy PQ 18, because of the long daylight hours and the preparations for November 1942's Operation Torch. The second series of...
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PQ 13 was a British Arctic convoy that delivered war supplies from the Western Allies to the USSR during World War II. The convoy was subject to attack...
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(flag in Onslow). The convoy sailed in the dead of winter to preclude attacks by German aircraft, like those that devastated Convoy PQ 17. Force R (Rear-Admiral...
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Operation Pedestal (redirect from Convoy Pedestal)
Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija (Santa Maria Convoy), was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta...
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Convoy PQ 16 (21–30 May 1942) was an Arctic convoy of British, United States and Allied ships from Iceland to Murmansk and Archangelsk in the Soviet Union...
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and HMS Onslaught sank the German minelayer Ulm east of Bear Island. 12 September 1942: Convoy PQ 18 escort HMS Faulknor sank U-88 near Bear Island. U-405...
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Dudley Pound (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
and his dismissal of Admiral Dudley North in 1940. His order in July 1942 to disperse Convoy PQ 17 and withdraw its covering forces, to counter a threat...
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