Thousands of men and women died in the Arctic Convoys,1941-5.
WW2DB gives these stats: "In total, 104 Allied merchant ships were sunk with the arctic convoys, along with 18 warships; 829 merchant mariners and 1,944 navy personnel were killed aboard them. The Soviet Union lost 30 merchant ships and an unknown number of personnel. In the attempt to disrupt the convoys, the Germans lost 5 surface warships, 31 submarines, and many aircraft."
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men and women killed in the WW2 Arctic Convoys
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Saint in the Orthodox Church, killed by Bolsheviks.
Born St. Petersburg, Russia (on 31 January according to the calendar in use at the time). Â In 1909 she went to Paris with the Ballets Russes tour. Moved permanently to London in 1912 and lived at I...
Writer. Born Ian Lancaster Fleming at 27 Green Street, Mayfair. He worked as a foreign correspondent with Reuters in Moscow, and was a senior naval intelligence officer in World War II. His varied ...
Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Seriously Famous, Jamaica, Russia
Russian-American poet and essayist. US Nobel Prize Laureate. Born Leningrad. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he settled in the USA, aided by W. H. Auden and others. There he taught and was ap...