80th Anniversary of the First Arctic Convoy
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The First Two Convois - Was It Mostly Symbolic?
There is a lot of symbolism, always, in the arctic convoys. The fact that they're geting this stuff from the west means they can focus on building t 34 and churning out rifles. Frankly, the tanks the british are churning out in 19 forty one forty two are not as good as the stuff the russians are building themselves. But where it gets really important is in the stuff that is just, frankly, not glamorous. Thousands and thousands of miles of telephone american trucks, railway engines,. There's a whole mass of stuff that goes out there that doesn't get filmed into propaganda films and on that. We must remembr occourse,
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