Word: murmansk
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...hope was in "those grey-eyed, broad-faced, frowning, sweating, swearing Russians." It was in the quiet battalions of Red soldiers, suddenly appearing in Murmansk and laboring through the night to repair the bombed wharves; then, at the end of overnight leave, returning to the northern front...
...Just as we have experienced many defeats in armed warfare, so have we suffered many losses in the sector of news and information. From Pearl Harbor to the Java Sea, from the Java Sea to Murmansk and the Aleutians we have failed to utilize the great tonic that the stark realism of bad news can give a determined and united people...
...cover initial landings, the seizure of a few airdromes, the quick delivery of enough land-based fighters to hold the air over northern Norway while troops tried to secure a real hold. If successful, the Allies could then break Germany's air grip on the convoy route to Murmansk and Archangel, perhaps compel a major German diversion from Russia's northern fronts. If they failed-and the odds against final success would be great -they might still upset the Nazis enough to increase the chances of success along the invasion coast nearer Britain...
...declaration of war. Indeed it was a hint that the U.S. would like to avoid sterner action. But it was both request and warning to Finland not to join the new big Nazi push on Russia, not to be shoved into an all-out attack on Murmansk...
Making for Archangel (Murmansk has been bombed useless), the convoy was churning toward the Barents Sea. Off North Cape it ran into trouble. For several days all that was known of the encounter was the Berlin radio's growing claims, first that nine, later that 32 out of 38 ships had been sunk, with an escorting U.S. cruiser tossed in for good measure...