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...tattered signal flag from a U. S. destroyer on the Murmansk...
...presence of Soviet and British troops is in conformity with a treaty [of 1941], but there are also American troops in Iran without any agreement with the Iranian Government." U.S. troops are there to rush U.S. supplies to the Red Army. But most of this traffic now goes via Murmansk. In effect, Izvestia's statement said that the Soviet Government would no longer honor Stalin's pledge, signed jointly with Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran last year, to "respect" Iran's "sovereignty and independence." In the course of the dispute, Russia informed Iran that Russia now considers...
...await either voluntary German withdrawal or British landings in the south. Russia was primarily interested in chasing Germans out of Finland, and the Russian pursuit was expected to go little farther than the Tana River, some 70 miles west of Kirkenes. The Russian drive will also free the Murmansk supply route from German air attacks...
...time the unfriendly warm weather returned, Lend-Lease planes were beginning to arrive from the U.S. and England. But from northern Norway and Finland, the Luftwaffe was taking terrific toll of the Allied convoys plying to Murmansk. Much Lend-Lease shipping for Russia had to be rerouted the dismally long way around to the Persian Gulf. The Russians hung on. They dismantled the aircraft factories which lay in the path of the Wehrmacht, moved them far to the rear and reassembled them there...
...Germans signalized their coup in Finland by parading third-rate troops around Helsinki, actually sent one armored division and a few planes to the wavering front between fallen Viipuri and Helsinki. The Russians, having retaken a 150-mile enemy-held stretch of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad between Lakes Ladoga and Onega, were now shipping seaborne supplies direct from Murmansk to Leningrad on this line. On the Karelian front the Red armies were patently able to do their will...