Message 1 - North Atlantic Convoy PQ17 Posted on: 21 January 2005 by Audrey Lewis - WW2 Site Helper. BBC Birmingham, Please thank Charles Winters for his story. I found it very interesting and ...

World War II Convoys by Bill Cotton . There were four types of Wartime Convoy 1. The Atlantic ...

He never saw battle, but his job, as a member of the Navy Armed Guard on supply vessels in the Atlantic during World War II, was fraught with potential danger at almost every turn. Jack Hillier, ho… ...

-It played a crucial role in WWII, escorting Atlantic convoys and providing vital naval gunfire support for amphibious landings at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

Now 95, Smedley experienced the real thing, making 11 trans-Atlantic trips as a sonarman on the USS Hammann, a U.S. Navy destroyer escort, between 1943 and 1945, largely without incident.

Altogether, Brazilian Navy vessels embarked on 3,500 convoy escort missions over the course of World War II and engaged German submarines on sixty-six separate occasions—though whether they sank ...

During Robin’s time in the ships Company, Suffolk formed part of three Battle of Atlantic convoys: two Arctic Convoys and Convoy number WS30/KMF15 from the Clyde to Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Message 1 - In Convoy across the Atlantic Posted on: 23 May 2004 by Carey - WW2 Site Helper. Hallo! I'm Carey, one of the Writing Buddies here at the WW2 site. Thank you very much for your story ...