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NATO warships remember worst Arctic convoy of WW2 with commemorations in Iceland
29/06/2017

Seventy-five years after an ill-fated formation of merchant vessels and warships mustered in these same waters, today's guardians of the sea lanes form up in an Icelandic fjord to remember convoy PQ17.

Of the 35 ships which set out to deliver aid to the USSR via the northern tip of Europe, only 11 reached their destination.

The rest were sunk by German air and sea power in what was the very worst of 78 convoys dispatched by Britain and her allies to the Soviet Union to help sustain the Eastern Front and prevent Nazism from overrunning Europe.

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