Konvoi 3: Allied Lend-Lease and Luftwaffe bombing Murmansk

[Ali74]

The America's geographically were out of range WWII..hence got off scot free..sole exception being only time we were attacked when Japan ripped apart Pearl Harbor, therefore supplies were untouched.. plus US general Weeks stated the "jury was out" on what impact the 4% supplies had if any.

Russia as the Superpower of the allies killed over 7.7 million axis (75% +) then agreed to american pleas at feb 1945 yalta conference to assist in defeating lesser axis Japan after they finished Germans

[TheSanityInspector]

Thanks for the translation, utkonos313.

[utkonos313]

5 "Seeing the futility?? of the attempt to take the city from land Hitler gave the order to destroy the city from the air. Up to this point in the war namely Murmansk suffered the most hitlerite bombing."

[utkonos313]

4/ "The rail link with Moscow forbade him a favorable strategic position. Moreover, ?? of Hitler's army ?? ?? 80 km distant from Murmansk. A specially organised force of Naval Infantry from the Northern Fleet blocked the fuhrer's plan. "

[utkonos313]

3/ "Under the protocol United Kingdom and the United States were to suppy assistance with transport and delivery of material to the Soviet Union. Hitler kept an eye on?? Murmansk. He calculated quickly taking the city's only remaining port system, repair workshops and docks.

Murmansk was the only unoccupied port in Northern Russia."

[utkonos313]

2/ "Under the terms of this agreement the United Kingdom and the United States promised to send the Soviet Union from the 1st of October 1941 to the end of June 1942 every month 400 aircraft, 500 tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, tin, aluminium, lead and other different types of weapons and war material."

[utkonos313]

1/ "On the evening of the 22nd of June 1941 Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill appeared on radio. He announced that any person or government who was fighting against Nazism would receive our assistance. It therefore follows we will give the Russia and the Russian people all and ever possible assistance. On the 2nd of October 1941 an agreement was signed."