Word: archangelic
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...file of rust-pocked freighters dropped anchor last week in Archangel's harbor. These ships of the United Nations had come to Russia's great Arctic seaport on a mission far different from the one in which ships of the same nations had been engaged 24 years ago. In 1918 Allied ships had put ashore at Archangel expeditionary forces to fight Red revolutionaries; this time the nations of the West brought supplies to an embattled Red Army. The safe arrival of the convoy meant more, however, than a complete turn in the wheel of history. It meant...
Only three days before Britain disclosed that Archangel was in use again, the Admiralty had told how a convoy, perhaps the same one or a section of it, had fought its way to safety through a five-day battle with U-boat and Luftwaffe packs. German boasts of sinking 18 ships the Admiralty called "an exaggeration of 175%" (i.e., six or seven ships were lost...
...later London announcement: the British had increased the naval strength assigned to the northern patrol between Iceland and Murmansk. For this there was a reason. After months when more & more British and U.S. war goods had found their way, with little interference, past Norway to Murmansk and Archangel, the Germans were stirring in their Norwegian lairs. The United Nations from now on would have to fight for one of the vital sea lanes of World...
...Russia, victory in the looming Battle of the Arctic means a continued flow of supplies to Murmansk and (in the ice-free season, from April to November) to Archangel, then on by rail to the Soviet fronts. For Britain and the U.S., command of these waters may yet open the way to a front in northern Europe, where Allied manpower can wield Allied weapons against Hitler's armies...
...world production. But nearly 7,000 miles of water -a four months' round trip for a fast tanker -lie between San Francisco and Melbourne. India's port of Calcutta is 16,425 miles from San Francisco. It is 4,673 miles from New York to Archangel. And all these trips will require some convoying...