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LewPaper | 16:46 Tue 20th Jan 2015 | History
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I love history docs, especially those from the early 20th C. and it's always been a fascination of mine that instead of using the Arctic corridor to Murmansk that they didn't use the short hop from Alaska to Russia especially as most of the goods came from the US anyway.
Obviously there was a reason otherwise they wouldn't have put so many lives at risk, but I'd love to know why.
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The Arctic route (or, more accurately, 'routes', since there was a northern route in the summer and a southern one in the winter) could avoid pack ice. The Bering Strait route required the use of ice-breakers. There weren't many available and, inevitably, using them considerably slowed down the progress of convoys. However limited use of the route was still made by some convoys formed of Soviet ships. (Perhaps it's because British crews weren't involved that we don't hear much about it?).

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