Heavy Losses In Supplies By Convoy to Russia
Rec. 12.30 a.m. Washington, Aug. 26.. Captain Lovett, Navy director of public relations, revealed that losses in convoys to Russian Arctic ports sometimes reach 50 oer cent. of the supplies. "It is difficult to get guns, ammunition l and food supplies to Russia," he said. j "In some convoys via Murmansk and Archangel there has been a loss of 50 I per cent. of the supplies, but we still feel it is worth while if we get the rest through." He added that the United States has not lost a troopship since she entered the wa1-
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1942, Page 3
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