Word: murmansk
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...else, Harvard meant people. All sorts characters, to use the idiom. And now they were gone. He thought of the five who joined the happy company with him. One was at Fort Sill; one was at Princeton; two were lost in the middle west; another was en route to Murmansk, probably. Everybody else was the same way, and soon it would be a destroyer and godknowswhere for the Vag. They had wept when they left, but Vag was happy. With the index finger gone, the other four were meaningless. Soon he would escape the ghost, and would not have...
...dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector apparatus, pricking up her mechanical ears, hunting hungrily for a fat Allied convoy on the long haul to Murmansk with materiel for the Red Army...
...German capital ship in fighting trim when she made her dash to the north. The fact that she was thrown away on a convoy-raiding mission was of itself a revealing indication of growing desperation, of strain under pressure, of failing submarine and air power which once made the Murmansk route a death alley for United Nations shipping...
...convoyed North Atlantic freighters, made the "suicide run" to Murmansk and back, turned up smartly for the North African invasion and sank a bothersome Vichyfrench cruiser there. Junkers 88s caught her ten miles off Palermo after the Sicily invasion and almost pounded her to the bottom. She staggered into port and, unable to reply with anything but machine guns, took a stationary beating from German bombers...
Late in September 1941 the Germans moved in, made an air base at Longyear City, from which they could harass Allied shipping to Murmansk. Six months later a Norwegian force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...