PQ17: An Arctic Convoy

[Woolgar]

Did any of you see this fascinating documentary on BBC2 last night !

There were some very bad decisions made with catastrophic results!

Watch it here if you missed it:

BBC iPlayer - PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster

The story:

Convoy PQ 17 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nick

[Gunny Hartmann]

Yup, lots of needless suffering!..

[Jerry B]

I watched it last night, what a balls up. A good program apart from a few of Clarkson's xenophobic rantings.

[Gunny Hartmann]

I watched it last night, what a balls up. A good program apart from a few of Clarkson's xenophobic rantings.

I used to like Clarkson but he gets right on my t*ts now!...

[M18922]

I watched it as well last night, it was excellent. I wonder if Dudley Pound's brain tumor somehow resulted in his horrible decision.

[Scout]

Have read about what happened before. So many lives lost during that conflict.

I used to like Clarkson but he gets right on my t*ts now!...

Not nearly as enamoured with Top Gear as I used to be.
The jabbering annoying Hamster is worse than Clakson though IMO.

[Woolgar]

Forget Clarkson its the tragic story thats the point

Nick

[Gunny Hartmann]

Forget Clarkson its the tragic story that the point

Nick

Indeed!...

[Scout]

Forget Clarkson its the tragic story that the point

Nick

I agree, very tragic.

In fact, many of the crews on the ill fated convoys to the USSR never got the reqognition, that they so deserve.

[Gary J]

It was as if Dudley Pound had written off the convoy in his mind, and decided that saving as many of the RN ships was the only thing to do.