Konvoi Arktika pada Perang Dunia II

Konvoi Arktik pada Perang Dunia II adalah konvoi melalui samudra yang berlayar dari Britania Raya, Islandia dan Amerika Utara ke pelabuhan-pelabuhan utara di Uni Soviet – terutama Arkhangelsk dan Murmansk di Rusia. Terdapat 78 konvoi antara Agustus 1941 sampai Mei 1945, berlayar melalui beberapa laut dari Samudra Atlantik dan Samudra Arktik, dengan dua celah tanpa pelayaran antara Juli dan September 1942, dan Maret dan November 1943.

Konvoi Arktik pada Perang Dunia II
Bagian dari Perang Dunia II
Pemandangan dari kapal penjelajah HMS Sheffield saat kapal tersebut berlayar dalam tugas konvoi melalui perairan Samudra Arktik. Di latar belakang adalah kapal-kapal dagang dari konvoi tersebut.
Tanggal Agustus 1941 – Mei 1945 Lokasi Laut Norwegia dan Samudra Arktik Hasil Kemenangan Sekutu
Pihak terlibat
Britania Raya Uni Soviet Kanada Amerika Serikat Norwegia	Jerman
Korban
85 kapal dagang 16 kapal perang	4 kapal perang 30 kapal selam

Referensi

Daftar pustaka

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Pranala luar

• London Gazette: Convoys to North Russia, 1942 Diarsipkan 2012-06-16 di Wayback Machine.
• Allies and Lend-Lease Museum, Moscow
• MOD veterans' agency
• German account of RösselsprungDiarsipkan 2012-04-15 di Wayback Machine.
• [http://admiral.centro.ru/memor08.htm Soviet account on the war in Arctic and the convoys: Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov
• Murmansk Run: Arctic Convoys to Russia: free print-and-play boardgame.
• Naval History.net
• The Quiet Courage of Chief Steward Horace Carswell DSM, MM, BEM during Convoy PQ.17
• Coxswain Sid Kerslake of armed trawler "Northern Gem" and the Russian Convoys
• Convoy PQ.17 Primary source diary and supporting material by Jack Bowman, ERA aboard HMS La Malouine.
• Lend-Lease, Northern Convoys from the Voice of Russia website
• The Norwegian Merchant Fleet
• Newsreel video of HMS Scylla fighting the Luftwaffe while protecting convoy PQ 18
• Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War
• Thank you, Brave Comrade