This silent WWII newsreel, created for the home market in Germany, shows German aircraft and submarines attacking an Allied convoy in the North Sea. Attacks such as these on the convoy line to Murmansk were extremely costly for the Allies. The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union - primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk, both in modern-day Russia. Although there...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, U-Boat, War, Murmansk, Newsreel, Arctic Convoy, WW2