BACKGROUND TO RUSSIAN CONVOYS 1941-45

4. EASTERN FRONT and RUSSIAN CONVOYS, June 1941-October 1942

HMS Trinidad, light cruiser, sunk 15 May 1942
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the sheer scale of the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 ...

..... starting with OPERATION BARBAROSSA - the Axis Invasion of Soviet Russia 22 June 1941


 

The EASTERN FRONT, the RUSSIAN CONVOYS that SAILED, and the REST of the WAR in OUTLINE


JUNE-NOVEMBER 1941


 


DECEMBER 1941-MAY 1942


Note: HMS Trinidad was damaged by her own torpedo on 29 March 1942, reached Kola Inlet for temporary repairs, and then bombed and sunk on her return journey on 15 May 1942

Rest of the War: Pearl Harbor ..... 'Channel Dash', and Raid on St Nazaire ... Madagascar

 


JUNE-OCTOBER 1942


Rest of the War: Atlantic ...... Guadalcanal

 

 
 

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