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After surviving the hazards of floating mines, surface raiders, and dive bombers on a convey to Murmansk, seaman Winthrop Haskell is back in Cambridge studying to be a third mate. Souvenirs of his seven-month voyage are the current drawing card at the Russian War Relief headquarters on Dunster Street...
...Reach Murmansk...
...shattered and depleted convey nosed into Kola Bay, down to the Tulema River, and Murmansk. Crewmen on Haskell's ship, who were lounging around the mess galley while awaiting their boat's turn to be unblessed, were suddenly shaken by a terrific explosion. Rushing on deck to man the guns against air attack, they found that the explosion, which struck about number four batchway, was not a bomb but a floating mine...
...There will be an end to Hitler's holding one front with a minimum number of men and machines while he fights on the other. If the Allies consolidate their hold on North Africa, the Axis will be subject to attack from Sicily to Murmansk: Hitler will have 10,000 miles of front to man and protect...
...Murmansk there was no tea. Butter and milk were only for children and for the sick. There were 1,000 wounded Englishmen in the hospital. They got milk. The men & women in Murmansk were lucky to get bread...