Those were brave people who manned the Allied supply convoys to Murmansk. German U-boats were kings of the seas through 1942 and sank thousands and thousands of Allied ships. About 15 years ago, I read a 1942 copy of "LIFE Magazine" in which President Roosevelt [in a close paraphrase] said, "The people of the United States will be etern…
Those were brave people who manned the Allied supply convoys to Murmansk. German U-boats were kings of the seas through 1942 and sank thousands and thousands of Allied ships. About 15 years ago, I read a 1942 copy of "LIFE Magazine" in which President Roosevelt [in a close paraphrase] said, "The people of the United States will be eternally grateful to the Russian people for the sacrifices they have made." Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and other Allied leaders wanted to send as many supplies as possible to the Soviet Union because the Soviet armies were keeping the German Wehrmacht away from British and American shores.
Those were brave people who manned the Allied supply convoys to Murmansk. German U-boats were kings of the seas through 1942 and sank thousands and thousands of Allied ships. About 15 years ago, I read a 1942 copy of "LIFE Magazine" in which President Roosevelt [in a close paraphrase] said, "The people of the United States will be eternally grateful to the Russian people for the sacrifices they have made." Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and other Allied leaders wanted to send as many supplies as possible to the Soviet Union because the Soviet armies were keeping the German Wehrmacht away from British and American shores.