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	Destruction of Convoy Pq-17
		Convoy PQ 17 was a 34 ship train, with heavy naval protection, dispatched from Iceland in July of 1942 carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of American-manufactured war materials for the faltering Soviet Union.
		But in the case of Convoy PQ 17, the Admiralty misread the facts, saw an enemy fleet where there was none (the Germans actually never committed their heavy battleships, fearing Allied aircraft carrier attack) and left a helpless convoy at the mercy of the Luftwaffe and wolf packs.
		The slaughter was so severe the PQ convoy route (Iceland to Murmansk and Archangel) was suspended afterwards, the Soviets screamed bad faith, and the British Admiralty began a systematic attempt to muzzle the truth of what had happened (hence the banning of this book).
	www.textkit.com /0_0312911521.html (438 words)

	Convoy
		Convoy (Transformers) As the Japanese Equivilent of Prime Convoy is the Japanese Equivlent of "prime".
		Convoy internal communications Convoy internal communications are convoy: that are among the elements of the convoy, tha...
		Convoy, Ohio Convoy is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 1,110.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/convoy.html (165 words)

	Convoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The convoy prefix indicates the route of the convoy.
		Even if the privateer found a convoy and the wind was favourable for an attack, it could hope to capture only a handful of ships before the rest managed to escape, and a small escort of warships could easily thwart it.
		The largest convoy effort since World War II was Operation Earnest Will, the U.S. Navy's 1987–88 escort of reflagged Kuwaiti tankers in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Convoy (1102 words)

	Russian, Arctic, Convoy, PQ, PQ17, QP, Barents, Sea, Battle, North Cape, Scharnhorst, Jamaica, Sheffield, HMS
		Russian, Arctic, Convoy, PQ, PQ17, QP, Barents, Sea, Battle, North Cape, Scharnhorst, Jamaica, Sheffield, HMS
		Convoys PQ12 and QP8 pass to the southwest of Bear Island and with "Tirpitz" reported at sea, the Home Fleet tries to place itself between her and the convoys.
		Convoy JW51B is reported an the 30th and 8in "Hipper" (Adm Kummetz), 11in "Lutzow" and six destroyers put to sea from Altenfiord to intercept north of North Cape.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRussianConvoys.htm (4941 words)

	Convoy PQ. 17, St. Petersburg Russia, May 8, 2005 Coleman Lemieux et Compagnie
		Convoy PQ 17 will be the sole cultural event in thishistoric commemoration.
		Convoy PQ 17 has been performed in Canada in Victoria, B.C and Montreal.
		Coleman Lemieux and Compagnie’s dance, war requiem CONVOY PQ.
	www.colemanlemieux.com /node/23 (321 words)

	Real History and the 1942 North Russian Convoys
		At this crucial meeting the fateful decision was taken to scatter Convoy PQ.17.
		DSO, RN, the escort commander in this 1942 North Russian convoy disaster, sued David Irving in libel after the publication by Cassell and Co. Ltd.
		Real History and the 1942 North Russian Convoys
	216.55.175.240 /Legal/PQ17Libel/DTel130370.html (470 words)

	Murmansk
		Scattering the convoy was the best, but tragic, alternative to having the Germans pounce on all the ships in one compact group, a target which their big guns would have eliminated in short order.
		This mighty battleship was screening both northbound convoy JW55B and southbound convoy BA55A, one or both of which, in the opinion of the Admiralty, would be spotted by German submarine or air reconnaissance and would be too tempting, under conditions of the winter Arctic darkness, for the Germans to resist.
		By the time convoy escorts arrived to look for survivors there were only a few boards and crates to mark where the Henry Bacon and 22 of her men went down.
	www.armed-guard.com /ag79.html (7676 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Arctic convoy - PQ 17 - A3346986
		BBC - WW2 People's War - Arctic convoy - PQ 17 - A3346986
		PQ 17 was the price I had to pay for surviving the next 50-odd years!
		I know now that scattering the convoy is considered to be a great error, and this has influenced how I think about people in command ever since.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A3346986 (586 words)

	1942
		A U-Boat engages stragglers from convoy PQ-17 in the Arctic Ocean.
		Escorts of the Arctic convoy PQ13, beat off a German destroyer attack, sinking Z26.
		Allied convoy SC-94 is sighted by German U-boat in the Atlantic, when a group of 6 ships with 2 escorts get lost from the convoy due to the fog.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1942seawar.asp (781 words)

	Convoy PQ. 17
		Bill’s piece is a requiem for the convoy, and an homage to his father and his comrades.
		17, a World War II supply convoy that ran from North America to Russia.
		On July 5, 1942, his freighter, the Bolton Castle went down, with eleven other vessels, the victim of German bombing after the convoy’s escorts were withdrawn.
	ruk.ca /article/2064 (120 words)

	Enamel cup
		Through the North Atlantic and the Norwegian and Barents Seas, Allied convoys (labeled PQ on their eastbound voyages) delivered weapons and strategic materials to the Russian ports of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk.
		He is also an active member of the St. Petersburg Arctic Convoy Association (eric@portpc.spb.ru)—which on Victory Day (9 May) commemorates the unsung heroes of the vital convoys to the USSR that contributed so much to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
		Between 13 and 17 July we were able to take aboard more than 100 seamen—survivors of the Alcoa Ranger, Washington, Hartlebury, and Paulus Potter—in addition to the 12 crewmen from the Olopana.
	www.navyleague.org /seapower_mag/Dec2000/dremliug.htm (1982 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Ruel Nathan Lawrence - Warrior Wednesday - Jan. 29th, 2003
		Convoys headed for Russia were known as PQ convoys and those heading back from Russia were designated as QP convoys (interestingly the officer in charge of planning these earliest Russia convoys was Commander P.Q. Edwards and they were soon nicknamed after his initials).
		The reason why the convoy broke up and each ship proceeded on their own was because the convoy Commodore received word that the German battleship Tirpitz with her escorts were not too far off and were looking for the convoy.
		The convoy was heavily escorted (although not as strong as the numbers suggested) including 4 cruisers, 3 destroyers and two British submarines and two tankers which would fuel the ships when needed.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/831700/posts (9584 words)

	Rudolph H. Kroetz Information
		The controversial aspect of this order was that the military escort vessels were withdrawn far to the west of the convoy and there was thereinafter absolutely no naval protection for PQ-17.
		Fighting desperately to hold to their course in the face of persistent raids which swept down upon the convoy, the gun crew, under Ensign Kroetz's vigilant direction, opened up a terrific barrage against fourteen low-flying Heinkel 177's, shot one down off starboard quarter and burst another into flames amidships.
		Shortly after this attack, the convoy commander ordered the fleet of ships to scatter, each vessel to proceed individually and at "utmost speed" to their destination.
	users3.ev1.net /~de238/stewart/kroetz.html (925 words)

	PQ.html
		The biggest threat to the warships guarding the convoy was the 50,000 ton Tirpitz, which was anchored in a Norwegian fjord from where it could menace the Arctic shipping routes with its eight fifteen inch guns.
		Historians of the Arctic convoys, a lifeline from Britain to its Soviet allies, said this weekend that the MI5 file confirmed a long held suspicion among seamen on the convey that their shipmates had been sacrificed.
		Further to the convoys normal escort were added, Rear Admiral L.H.K. Hamilton’s squadron which comprised four heavy cruisers of which two were American, and three destroyers and under Tovey’s command the Home Fleet made up of battleships Duke of York and Washington (USN), aircraft carrier Victorious, cruisers Nigeria and Cumberland and fourteen destroyers.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /PQ.html (1311 words)

	Original Artwork: Brian Sanders: Convoy PQ-17 Destroyed - British Merchant Ship
		On June 27, 1942, convoy PQ-17 left Iceland bound for the Soviet port of Archangel.
		German efforts centered instead on the luckless convoy, widely scattered and vulnerable to attack.
		In response, the western Allies dispatched a series of cargo-laden convoys to their Soviet confederates.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5SB92Y.htm (325 words)

	The Very Best Books : Battle in the Arctic Seas: The Story of Convoy Pq 17
		Despite the near certainty of enemy attack and the hazards of a voyage through the brutally cold waters above the Arctic Circle, these ships will sail tomorrow in an Allied convoy bound for Russia (Convoy PQ 17).
		Battle in the Arctic Seas: The Story of Convoy Pq 17
		On board a battered, rusty freighter in the bleak port of Hvalfjordur, Iceland, Ensign Howard E. Carraway surveys the dozens of cargo ships anchored nearby; their decks crammed with tanks, crated aircraft, barrels of gasoline, and other implements of war.
	www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/0690010842 (215 words)

	Book Reviews
		PQ 18 marked the first use of an escort carrier, also known as "baby flattop" to protect a convoy.
		Organizing convoys and strategies to overcome U-Boats and surface raiders were learned with great loss of life during the "War to End All Wars." Unfortunately this knowledge was lost by the start of World War II: due to lack of foresight and stubbornest on the part of Naval leaders (both British and American).
		Smith explains the fate of the convoy once it reaches Archangel, and also covers the course of eastbound convoy QP 14, which started its journey nearly simultaneously.
	www.usmm.org /bookreview.html (7360 words)

	Free Download: David Irving: The Destruction of Convoy PQ.17
		Free Download: David Irving: The Destruction of Convoy PQ.17
		It seemed that of some 38 ships that sailed, nearly all were sunk, and each had gone their separate way after the convoy was scattered on July 4, 1942 in the mistaken belief that Tirpitz, the German battleship, was just about to attack.
		It is a story of invididual heroism by members of an unsung breed of brave men, the sailors of the British and American merchant navies.
	www.fpp.co.uk /books/PQ17 (684 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Death of Convoy PQ-17( 6/27 - 7/28, 1942) - June 29th, 2005
		For the Royal Navy, the massacre of PQ-17 and the abandonment of the convoy was one of the most shameful episodes of the war at sea.
		Convoy PQ-8 was attacked by a U-boat but safely reached Murmansk on January 19, 1942.
		After confirmation of the orders was received, the men of the convoy could only stare in disbelief as their protection turned at high speed to join the cruiser force some 40 miles away.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1432906/posts (8391 words)

	Comments about "Convoy PQ. 17"
		My uncle, P O Henry McLeod Sanders was on the Pozarica which was amongst the PQ17 convoy.
		He was killed off the coast of North Africa in January 1943 - ironic that he survived the Russian Convoy to be killed thus.
		POSTED OCT 9, 2005 AT 02:17 ADT BY Add your comments...
	ruk.ca /discuss/2064 (76 words)

	Commodore John Charles Keith Dowding
		He was promoted to Captain RNR 31.12.40 and in 1942 with the temporary rank of Commodore 2nd Class RNR and was the Commodore of Convoy PQ17 for which he was awarded the CBE.
		In 1944, on the Staff of Commander in Chief Allied Navies, Expeditionary Force (Sir Bertram Ramsey), Commodore Dowding was the Principal Sea Transport Officer for Operation Neptune and Overlord (the D-Day landings).
		He was in command of HMS 'Mona's Isle' an Auxiliary Armed Boarding Vessel and was awarded a DSO for services at Dunkirk.
	www.pwsts.org.uk /johndowding.htm (255 words)

	Hour.ca - Stage - Là-bas, Convoy PQ 17 and summer dance preview
		In 1942, 23 of the 34 ships of Convoy PQ 17 and its intrepid merchant navy personnel, many of them Canadians, were run aground off the shores of northern Russia by German planes and U-boats.
		Coleman makes personal dances, and this one-of-a-kind event is arresting - inspired by his father's experience with England's Arctic merchant-marine convoy in one of the most infamous events of naval history.
		In this duo, which she'll dance with Frédéric Marier, Mohn traces "the movement of immigrants, their back-and-forth reality," how they strive and survive in their new home, and pursue their hopes and dreams.
	www.hour.ca /stage/stage.aspx?iIDArticle=3246 (931 words)

	Ju-88 and the Convoy PQ-17
		Ju-88's over the Allied Convoy PQ-17, which was badly mauled in the Arctic.
	www.oldgloryprints.com /Arctic%20Encounter.htm (13 words)

	Original Artwork: Brian Sanders: Convoy PQ-17 Destroyed - German U-Boat
		This painting originally appeared on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 29¢ Convoy PQ-17 Destroyed 1942 German U-Boat stamp issued July 5, 1992.
		The German "wolf packs" had deprived the Soviet military of valuable supplies, including more than 400 tanks, 200 aircraft, and 3,300 vehicles.
		Circling voraciously, the enemy submarines picked their targets and attacked at will.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5SB94Y.htm (324 words)

	Military Sea Transportation Service in the Arctic by Salvatore R. Mercogliano
		On July 4, 1942, Convoy PQ-17 from Iceland bound to Archangel in the Soviet Union was ordered to scatter while its naval escort beat a hasty retreat from the threat of the German super-dreadnought Tirpitz.
		While some were veterans of the gallant PQ convoys these crews were now sailing into the northern reaches of the globe to construct a series of outposts to defend the United States from its one time ally.
		The tragedy drove a wedge between the navy and merchant marine, for the mariners felt abandoned by the military and the renaming of the convoys to JW did not alleviate the dread that most sailors felt when they learned they were bound for the Arctic.
	www.usmm.org /msts/arctic.html (2191 words)

	Lund and Ludlam (1968) PQ 17--convoy to hell: The survivors' story
		Lund and Ludlam (1968) PQ 17--convoy to hell: The survivors' story
	www.getcited.org /pub/101557388 (11 words)

	The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17
		Covers the history of the fatal convoy PQ17 very indepth.
		I unfortunatly don't know if the newly republished english edition is also corrected.)
	home.swipnet.se /our_stuff/Planes/Books/PQ17.htm (54 words)

	Naval and Maritime Books
		The PQ/QP convoys began in 1941 and continued throughout the war all the while under threat of attack by German submarines, aircraft and surface ships.
		Winn, Godfrey P.Q. 17: A Story of a Ship Hutchinson 1948 Story of convoy P.Q. 17 on the Russian arctic run during the Second World War.
		Shankland and Hunter MALTA CONVOY Washburn 1961 The 'last chance' relief of Malta by the tanker Ohio-a triumph of courage and endurance.
	www.sonic.net /~books/navy.html (8472 words)

	David Irving
		During the Second World War his father was an officer aboard the Light Cruiser HMS Edinburgh, on May 2, 1942, while escorting Convoy QP11 in the Barents Sea, she was sunk by the German U-456.
		Irving rejected the ban and attempted to board a Qantas flight for New Zealand from Los Angeles on 17 September 2004.He was not allowed onboard."As far as Im concerned, the legal battle now begins," he was quoted as saying.
		Irving’s father survived, but after the incident cut off all ties with his wife and their children.Irving first gained his notoriety as a student of the Imperial College London, where he wrote for the student newspaper and served as the editor ofthe London University Carnival Committee’s journal, Carnival Times.
	bookbuyingonline.com /199530_david-irving_0718304209accidentthedeath... (2231 words)

	uboat.net - Naval Warfare Books - Destruction of Convoy PQ-17, The by Irving, David
		From the uboat.net review: The Russia-bound convoy PQ-17 (you can read its full story here) was the worst convoy disaster of the war.
		uboat.net - Naval Warfare Books - Destruction of Convoy PQ-17, The by Irving, David
		Descripton: A detailed account of the famous convoy debacle from the Allied point of view.
	www.uboat.net /books/item/5 (103 words)

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