![]() ![]() Ice fields could be encountered at any time of year. ![]() The voyages across the North Atlantic and from Iceland to the Russian ports of Murmansk, Archangel, and Kola Inlet involved more hazards than in any other kind of naval duty. Thousands of cargo ships, manned by tens of thousands of brave British, Canadian, and American civilian merchant mariners, along with Navy and Coast Guard personnel, made the hazardous voyages carrying invaluable supplies to America’s chief Allies-Great Britain and the Soviet Union-months before, and years after, the United States was propelled into the war on December 7, 1941. This was the Murmansk Run, the convoy duty on the North Atlantic. It was unbelievably dull and uncomfortable duty, often interspersed with moments of sheer terror and the possibility of sudden and violent death.
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