Word: murmansk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Suicide Run to Murmansk, the most dangerous convoy trip of World War II, is revisited on film by some men who were there when the going was tough. Guests include former Foreign Correspondent Walter Kerr; David Sinclair, a British sea captain; Lord Beaverbrook: and a U.S. Navy survivor, Charles M. Ulrich...
...intervene was based not on the Bolshevik but the German menace. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk took Russia out of the war and left the Germans free to mount what was to be their last massive offensive on the Western Front. The Allies also feared that the port of Murmansk and tens of thousands of tons of war supplies in Archangel and Vladivostok would fall into German hands...
...fighting against bands of German war prisoners who had rearmed themselves, and when he finally gave the order to intervene on July 6, 1918, the U.S. commitment was mainly limited to "aiding the Czechs against German and Austrian prisoners" and "guarding the military stores at Kola," a village near Murmansk. (There were no military stores at Kola.) When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions in knee-deep water 100 miles from Archangel, posters provided by British General Headquarters proclaimed that their enemies were Bolsheviks-"soldiers and sailors who, in the majority of cases are criminals . . . Their natural...
...part of the largest display of peacetime might the 15-nation alliance has ever staged, NATO this week will hold naval maneuvers west of Norway. Last week, plunging into the chill northern waters first, the well-trained Soviet Arctic fleet began war games off Murmansk and the top of Norway...
Russia's northern force has suddenly emerged as the most significant of Russia's four fleets. Based on Polyarny, near Murmansk, and on Khabarovo, about 700 miles to the east, its four cruisers, 40-odd destroyers and 50 to 100 submarines (some of them missile-armed) are positioned to dominate the far northern approaches to Europe. In time of war the fleet would provide the stronger arm of the naval pincer (the Soviet Baltic fleet is the other) by which the Russians would try to neutralize Scandinavia and challenge Western transatlantic sea lines. It would also serve...