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  1. Canadian Merchant Navy and Royal Canadian Navy seamen sail into the Arctic Ocean to deliver war materials to the Soviet Union which was called the Murmansk Run and one of the most perilous areas was the Arctic supply route to the Soviet Union. Beginning in the late summer of 1941, a total of 41 Allied convoys sailed to the Soviet ports of Murmansk and Archangel during the war. The Arctic convoys delivered millions of tons of supplies from the United States, Great Britain and Canada, including aircraft, tanks, jeeps, locomotives, flatcars, rifles and machine guns, ammunition, fuel and even boots. From the beginning, Canadian merchant sailors served on Allied ships making the runs. The Germans threw the full weight of their air force and navy against the convoys. More than 20 percent of all cargo on the Murmansk Run was lost and one convoy lost 24 of 33 ships at a cost of 153 lives. It was so dangerous that strict orders were given that no merchant ship was allowed to stop, even to rescue sailors who fell overboard. Beginning in October 1943, Royal Canadian Navy destroyers and frigates also became involved in the Murmansk Run as convoy escorts. They participated in about 75 percent of the subsequent convoys until the end of the war a year and a half later. Remarkably, no Royal Canadian Navy ships were lost. The Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill records the names of the Canadians who died on the Murmansk Run, among the more than 1,600 Canadian Merchant Navy men and women who lost their lives during the Second World War.
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  2. In Russia they are recognized as being part of the Russian Federation only, Internationally they are recognized as being part of Ukraine.
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  3. The Canadians also supplied the Soviets. Which included 125 Soviet vessels that were repaired in the Canadian ports in the province of BC, which included provisions of sailors clothes, deck and engine room stores. Gifted the Russians the icebreaker Montcalm in order for the Soviets to keep the ports of Murmansk and Archangel open for deliveries from the western Allies. Plus 1,388 Valentine tanks (made in Angus Works in Quebec initially were being made for the UK); 1,348 weapons carriers Canadian made in Oshawa (CMP) trucks modified to operate under -40F including the lorry a 3 ton 4x4; six pounder anti-tank portee, designed to carry a wheeled gun that can be fired from the vehicle or on the ground; 10 “Lake” class mine sweepers; 1,051 Hurricane aircraft fighters (originally produced in Ontario Canada for the UK) and 29 radar sets. 37,286 tons of aluminum. 10,000 tons of cordite, and 27,000 tons of copper. Non war materials included: 882,482 tons of steel rails, 1,562 flatcar units, 3 complete plants of machine tools, 500 lathes, shapers and planers plus 3 copies of unique Canadian armoured snowmobiles. Agricultural aid of 9 million bushels of wheat to eighty tons of brome grass seed, which continued after the war in Europe ended to September 1945 of 28,000 tons of flour. Fifty-six per cent, of all craft delivered to the Soviet Union from North American (US and Canada) were flown via the Alaska-Siberia route, thru airports in western Canada. A plant in Great Falls, Montana supplied the aircraft with the Soviet red star. By Sept 1942 a US Air Transport Command Head quarters was established in an airport Edmonton Alberta Canada, on 23 Sept 1943 that airport handled 860 different aircraft in a single day! Such as P-40 Warhawk, P-39 Aircobra P63 Kingcobra fighters, the A-20 and B-25 bombers as well as the C-47 Skytrain transports.
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