In July 1942, a heavily escorted Allied convoy set out across the Arctic, carrying vital supplies to the Soviet Union. As ...

My name is Bill Martin. I was called up in 1941, when I was 19, and joined the Navy - I thought the Navy was the best of the three options. I went through the training period and ended up as a seaman/ ...

This story was sumbitted to the People's War website by Garry Lloyd onbehalf of Victor Davies. He has given his permission for his story to go onto the website and understands the terms and conditions ...

Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII, which delivered vital war supplies to the Soviet Union via the Arctic, and reveals the convoy's greatest disaster. Show more Jeremy ...

The wrecks were traced by the staff members of the national cartographical office who were researching the seafloor close to the Norwegian-Russian border OSLO, October 21. /TASS/. Wrecks of three ...

On January 30, Ukrainian cinemas began showing the Norwegian-made historical war film «The Arctic Convoy». Its plot is inspired by the real events of World War II related to the PQ-17 convoy, which ...

We tend to forget about the war in the Arctic, and about the Merchant Marine crewmen who sailed into waters heavily patrolled by Nazi U-boats that stalked them. World War II was such a sprawling ...