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	Battle of the Denmark Strait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a World War II naval conflict between ships of the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine.
		This, combined with the effects of the battle, left most of her main guns unusable and she broke off the engagement.
		The rough seas in the Strait kept the destroyers' role to a minimum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Denmark_Strait (2187 words)

	::The Battle of Barents Sea::
		The Battle of Barents Sea took place on December 31st, 1942.
		Barents Sea, as a battle, is not frequently referred, to but it did lead to Adolf Hitler ordering the scrapping of his entire battle fleet.
		Captain Robert Sherbrooke, VC By the Spring of 1942, Hitler had convinced himself that the Allies were planning an attack on Nazi-occupied Europe and that this attack would come through Norway.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /battle_of_barents_sea.htm (1796 words)

	HMS OBDURATE
		The battle only lasted through the forenoon but it was savage and by the end H.M.S ACHATES had been sunk and 'ONSLOW' had lost both 'A' and 'B' turrets and her Bridge to direct hits from the 'HIPPER'.
		Whilst the Battle of the Barents Sea was taking place, out in the Atlantic the Germans were increasing their U-boat activities with devastating effect on convoys there.
		On the eve of the 59th anniversary of the Battle of the Barents Sea this is Sid's recollections.
	www.zyworld.com /HMSECHO/obdurate/HMSObdurate2.htm (2962 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Battle of the Barents Sea
		Battle of the Barents Sea - by Irwin Kappes
		Instead of steaming toward the targets, bringing all forward guns to bear and presenting a smaller silhouette, Kummetz seemed to retreat and hide in the smoke and squalls while inching his way to the northeast.
		Battle of Barents Sea written by Irwin J. Kappes.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/barents/battle.aspx (1261 words)

	Battle of the Barents Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Barents Sea took place on December 31, 1942 between British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR, and German surface raiders.
		In addition to the convoy escort, two cruisers, Sheffield and Jamaica, were independently stationed in the Barents Sea to provide cover for the convoy.
		Because the battle took place during the darkest time of the year and both the German and British forces were scattered and unsure of the positions of the rest of their own forces, much less the enemy's, the entire battle was a rather confused affair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Barents_Sea (1031 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Battle of Leyte Gulf Revisited
		And because "The Battle for Leyte Gulf" didn’t change the situation on the ground in any important way, it can’t go down as a major victory unless the largely unknown fifth battle is included as part of it.
		It was that battle that determined the final fate of the Japanese in the central Philippines.
		Since the purpose of the Battle for/of Leyte Gulf was to secure the Gulf area, any fair-minded assessment has to include the contributions of Army land forces—particularly the 77th Division, destroyer squadrons that raided enemy re-supply bases on the island, and Marine Fighter-Bomber groups that dealt heavy blows to Japanese shipping.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/articles/leytegulfrevisited.aspx (648 words)

	krijgsgeschiedenis - >> nieuw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		73 North - The Battle of the Barents Sea * Pb
		In this history of The Battle of the Bulge, the author describes the planning of the attack and the course of events, including the defence of Bastogne and the heroic delaying actions fought by GIs supposed to be in a 'quiet' sector of the front.
		Lomas chronicles the first of the trench-warfare battles, where lines that would remain almost static for the rest of WWI were established.
	www.naylerco.nl /contents/nl/d424.html (1039 words)

	Dudley Pope
		Details its reign in the South Atlantic, the battle of the River Plate and the subsequent scuttling of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
		The colossal failure by the German Navy in the Battle of the Barents Sea had enormous consequences.
		The battle was one of the classic destroyer battles of the war.
	www.winthrop.dk /dpope4.html (960 words)

	The Imperial Russian Navy
		In the short battle that followed, the Novik damaged both German ships, and V-99 was driven into the minefields, where she struck a mine and sank.
		In August 1915, during the Battle of Kefken, the submarine Nerpa, together with the destroyers Pronzitelny and Bystry, under Captain Trubetskoy, attacked a Turkish convoy consisting of the cruiser Gamidie, two destroyers and four transports.
		The Battle of Moon Sound was the last fought by the Russian fleet under the ensign of St. Andrew.
	members.fortunecity.com /mikaelxii/Russia/Navy.html (3334 words)

	Red Sky in the Morning; the Battle of the Barents Sea, 1942 Air & Space Power Journal - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This particular incident, the Battle of the Barents Sea, was a pivotal fight between the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine.
		The battle was relatively short-lived and rather intense, covering just a couple of hours of scant twilight in the Arctic winter.
		I now know that a near miss at sea will still send shrapnel and splinters into the target, as is the case with airborne flak, often causing extensive damage that may not be immediately evident (I had always thought that the water would mitigate this somewhat).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NXL/is_3_18/ai_n6361655 (483 words)

	Alibris: SEA
		This is the story of the Battle of the Barents Sea, in which a small convoy of Allied merchantmen protected by four British destroyers defeated a much larger German force -- without losing a single merchant ship.
		The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on the 21st of October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the Spanish coast, between the combined fleets of Spain and France and the Royal Navy.
		From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history of five key battles that defined the evolution of naval warfare and the course of the American nation.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/SEA/page/20 (1103 words)

	Books on Naval Battles with UKshelf.com
		Battle at Sea: From Man-of-war to Submarine --- Â£8.40
		The Naval Chronicle: Contemporary Reports of the War at Sea: 1793-1798, from the Occupation of Toulon to the Battle of the Nile --- Â£17.99
		Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 13-15, 1942 --- Â£27.50
	www.hlebooks.com /UKSHELF/MARINE/navbat.htm (673 words)

	Cdr. Claude Sclater
		The survivors were rescued from the sea after 15 hours in open boats, 31 having perished from exposure.
		However these tactics suceeded in their objective of protecting the convoy, which passed through unscathed, and Hitler was so enraged at the failure to destroy JW-51B that he threatened to scrap his entire (surface) fleet and sacked its commander-in-chief, Admiral Raeder.
		A year later Obdurate was struck by a homing torpedo, fired from a U-boat which she was attacking; after temporary repairs in the dockyard at Murmansk she limped back to Newcastle on one engine and was paid off.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/gkarmstrong/aacaa1.htm (608 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The convoys reached their nadir with the crippling losses suffered by PQ17 in the summer of 1942, but by the year’s end the Axis were very much on the back foot after being thwarted in the Battle of the Barents Sea.
		At all times, sailors had to contend with horrendous weather conditions: mountainous seas, ice-covered decks, icy waters with little chance of survival if your ship was sunk, and in the depths of winter, continuous darkness.
		Nearly four million tons of equipment were successfully delivered to the Soviets via the convoys and if Russian gratitude at the time wasn’t especially fulsome, subsequently senior officers have admitted that the aid provided by the West was crucial in helping to tip the balance on the Eastern Front.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2006/0601/0006013001.asp (356 words)

	GMT GAMES: Project 500
		PQ-17 is a 2-player game of World War II air-naval operations in the Barents and Norwegian Seas, where the Allied player strives to pass convoys to and from north Russia in the face of appalling weather and determined opposition from his Axis opponent.
		The polar ice pack advances and ebbs with the seasons, varying the sea routes available and posing a hazard for naval forces venturing too close.
		And besides each other, players must also battle some of the worst weather in the world, potentially damaging their ships and affecting movement, searches, and combat.
	www.gmtgames.com /pq17/main.html (732 words)

	The Battle of the Barents Sea
		Twilight of the German Surface Fleet in World War II The Battle of Barents Sea on the morning of 31 December 1942 was not operationally noteworthy.
		The Soviets were counting heavily on materiel from the west which could be supplied only through a treacherous sea route through the Barents Sea into Murmansk.
		Ironically, the next time Scharnhorst sailed, it would be to attack a convoy escorted by the Onslow, the Orwell, the Sheffield, the Jamaica and the battleship Duke of York Admiral Burnett’s cruisers first sighted the Scharnhorst and in a completely one-sided battle she was sunk by the Duke of York.
	german-navy.de /kriegsmarine/articles/feature5.html (3077 words)

	Celebrating Soviet heroism
		The battles of Moscow, Stalingrad and Leningrad will forever be engraved in world history.
		Battles of such epic proportions have not occurred since.
		On the field of battle from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus the aggressor's military machine was broken." Significantly, representatives of two Baltic republics, Estonia and Lithuania, were not present at the ceremony.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2211/stories/20050603002105400.htm (1306 words)

	The Books of Dudley Pope
		At home in Kent, Ramage's young wife Sarah is distraught when the news reaches her that one of the biggest naval battles the world has ever known - the battle of Trafalgar - is about to take place.
		Pope brings together all the thrill of pirate life at sea with the true story of a remarkable soldier and buccaneer.
		As well as a description of the battle, the book presents a picture of life and events in Britain and France in the years up to 1805.
	www.geocities.com /cjstein_2000/DudleyPope/dudleypope.html (3442 words)

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		Earlier in 1943, after the humiliating defeat in the Battle of the Barents Sea, Hitler had told his admirals that their Navy was "utterly useless".
		He wanted all the heavy ships scrapped, and their guns removed for use as coastal defences; Admiral Raeder, C-in-C of the Kriegsmarine, resigned, and was replaced by Admiral Dönitz, who was able to persuade Hitler to allow him to deploy a number of heavy units to northern Norway to operate against Russia-bound convoys.
		The cruisers were left behind as the two big ships traded salvoes at a range of 17,000 to 20,000 yards, then a fortuitous 14-inch hit damaged one of Scharnhorst's propeller shafts, causing her to lose speed slightly.
	www.bobhenneman.info /bhnc.htm (1535 words)

	Naval Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF: Greatest of all Sea Battles.
		Describes the WWII Battle for Leyte Gulf from October 23rd, 1944 when two US Subs were sent to the bottom of the ocean by two Japanese Cruisers, to October 26th when Admiral Marc A Mitscher's Task Force 38 ended the pursuit of the Japanese ships that survived the battles.
		The island fortress of Malta and the hostile waters of the Med' saw some of the most savage air/sea battles of modern war.
	www.eastangliabooks.com /new_page_19.htm (529 words)

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		BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA - 31ST DECEMBER 1942
		The First Sea Lord insisted on two cruisers sailing all the way into the Barents Sea with the convoys, which Tovey later agreed was a wise move.
		As he retreated toward the naval base at Altenfjord, Stänge noted sadly in his war diary, "As we withdrew from the battle scene, it was hard to escape the feeling that, even though the situation appeared to be in our favour, we were unable to get at the convoy and scored no successes whatsoever."
	www.bobhenneman.info /bhbs.htm (2250 words)

	Amazon.com: Redsky Morning: Books: Michael Pearson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		That an enemy force of at least one pocket battleship, one heavy cruiser and six destroyers, with all the advantage of surprise and concentration, should be held off for four hours by five destroyers and driven from the area by two six-inch cruisers, without any loss to the convoy, is most creditable and satisfactory.
		The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attack as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britain's Russian allies.
		The battle was an important World War II turning point and it is hard to imagine a clearer description of the events that took place in The Barents Sea 60 years ago.
	www.amazon.com /Redsky-Morning-Michael-Pearson/dp/1840373393 (967 words)

	Great World War II Battles in the Arctic — www.greenwood.com
		Each battle is described in detail, with discussions of the various weapons and strategies that led to victory or defeat, and an analysis of how the battle affected the overall course of the war.
		Despite the fears of many men on both sides that they were being sacrificed for political expediency, their brave and heroic actions became an integral part of the war effort for each coalition.
		The Arctic was a difficult and costly theater where battle was often characterized by massive convoys and lurking U-Boats.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GM0892.aspx?print=1 (316 words)

	Navy News - Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Royal Navy sailors who lost their lives in the battle of the Barents Sea WWII, Dec 31st 1942, serving on the escort ships to Murmansk, Russia.
		The Plymouth area had 8 local heroes that were lost when the Bramble encountered a German battle fleet led by the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper.
		Dad did finish the war in the Battle of the Atlantic and the D-Day landings, serving on the destroyer HMS Vidette.
	www.navynews.co.uk /letters/2005/0511/051117_01.asp (646 words)

	Admiral Hipper
		During the Norwegian campaign she was rammed by the destroyer HMS Glowworm, but in 1941 she destroyed twelve merchant ships in the Atlantic.
		On 31 December 1942 she took part with the Lutzow in the Battle of the Barents Sea but subsequently was sent to the Baltic for training.
		SHe was scuttled in Kiel on 3 May 1945 after suffering heavy bomb damage.
	expage.com /page/shipsge1 (106 words)

	A Biographies
		The crates, along with wild seas, later combined to change the course of things for the JEFFER- SON MYERS.
		As the sea raged, the shifting crates prevented the crew from moving fore or aft.
		On December 31, the Germans attacked with pocket battleship Lutzow, heavy cruiser Hipper, six destroyers and associated submarines in an action known as the Battle of the Barents Sea.
	www.armed-guard.com /bioga.html (2567 words)

	Amazon.com: Flag 4: The Battle of Coastal Forces in the Mediterranean: Books: Dudley Pope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		73 North: The Battle of The Barents Sea by Dudley Pope
		Dudley Pope is a veteran of World War II, having served as a cadet in the merchant navy until wounded in the Battle of the Atlantic.
		Battle — Personalize your cell phone with your favorite song.
	www.amazon.com /Flag-Battle-Coastal-Forces-Mediterranean/dp/1591142768 (1215 words)

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