He then received an assignment to the heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa and spent nearly two years on the treacherous Murmansk run.

He served on convoys on the Murmansk run and took part in the initial Allied assault in North Africa.

The role of a fleet in being contradicted the role of using the fleet in Norway against convoys making the Murmansk run.

In 1943, during World War II, serving in the U.S. merchant marine, Frank Lovell barely survived the blow up of his ship by a German mine off the coast of Iceland as the ship came off the Murmansk run.

He had been a gunner on three different merchantmen, first on Atlantic convoys, then on the Murmansk run.

All those ships that survived the hell of the Murmansk run.

Frozen Fury, The Murmansk run of Convoy PQ-13.

Crucial to Soviet Effort Soviet forces were fighting a German invasion, and the Murmansk run was the only supply route that was not controlled by Germans.

Beginning at two points of departure, Reykjavik, Iceland, and Loch Ewe, Scotland, the Murmansk run was a gantlet of German aircraft, submarine and battleship attacks.

During the war, as the ship plied the dangerous Murmansk run, we kept in touch with her.