Venezuela's La Guaira port reopens to deliver earthquake aid, US military says
France 24 →Venezuela's La Guaira port has resumed operations after repairs and is receiving humanitarian aid for earthquake victims, the US military said Monday. US Southern Command said the USS Fort Lauderdale was delivering critical supplies through the port after twin powerful earthquakes killed more than 1,700 people and left thousands missing.
ARCTIC PORT NOW REOPENED WAY OPEN FOR U.S. TO SEND VITAL SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA
MOSCOW, Dec. 15.—The arctic port of Murmansk has been reopened and now the United States can continue to pour important military supplies through this seaport. The surprising Russian offensive continues to exact heavy toll on the retreating Nazis. Hundreds of villages have been recaptured and the Moscow-Leningrad railroad cleared. Red Star, official army organ, said that Germany's manpower is fast being depleted while Russia's reserves have yet to be tapped. Nazi losses were said to be three times as great as that incurred by the Soviet.
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Convoy PQ 17
Stalin and Soviet naval leaders found it difficult to understand the order to scatter given by the Admiralty which required unescorted cargo vessels to reach Soviet ports, one by one. When the head of the Soviet Military Mission in London, Admiral Nikolay Kharlamov and the Soviet ambassador, Ivan Maisky, asked when Convoy PQ 18 would sail, Pound said nothing could be done until better air cover was arranged.
Wikipedia →Moscow Conference (1942)
The British delegation led by Churchill and Cardogan was met by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and Chief of Staff, Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov. the summit was called urgently after the suspension of Arctic convoys strained Allied relations following the PQ 17 disaster.
Wikipedia →Battle of Stalingrad
The battle is commonly identified as the turning point on the Eastern Front — and the Lend-Lease supplies flowing through Murmansk were central to the Soviet war effort sustaining it.
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