GERMAN AIR FORCE, NAVY DECIMATE ALLIED ARCTIC CONVOY PQ-17
Norwegian and Arctic Seas • June 27, 1942 In March 1941, 9 months before Pearl Harbor plunged the neutral nation into World War II, the United States inaugurated the “Lend-Lease” program. That program gave Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and other Allied nations resisting Axis aggressors, mainly Germany and Japan, vast amounts of war matériel to…