80th Anniversary of the First Arctic Convoy
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Arctic Convois - The Worst Journey on Earth?
Each russian convoy almost becomes a fleet action. The environmental conditions up there are appalling. It's freez ang cold, terrible gales, all that kind of stuff. You only last a few minutes if you go in the water. And thy're being funnelled through this very, very narrow gap between the ice and the northern tip of norway. In the summer you've got almost total daylight, which makes life very, very easy for the luftaver. Nobody is particularly good, in the second mold war, at hitting ships at night. So the lift of ha become a much more potent threat in the summer.
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