Convoy is a 1940 British war film, produced by Ealing Studios, directed by Pen Tennyson and starring Clive Brook, John Clements and Edward Chapman. Convoy...
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Convoy, Ohio, a village in the United States Convoy (1927 film), an American silent film starring Lowell Sherman Convoy (1940 film), a British film directed...
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The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. The top ten 1940 released...
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Operation Pedestal (redirect from Convoy Pedestal)
submarines and aircraft attacked Axis convoys to Libya, during the North African Campaign (1940–1943). From 1940 to 1942, the Axis conducted the Siege...
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MV San Demetrio (category North Atlantic convoys of World War II)
of 38 ships that joined Convoy HX 84 for the passage across the North Atlantic and left Halifax, Nova Scotia on 28 October 1940. The Town-class destroyers...
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Convoy PQ 17 was the name for an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War. On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the...
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The Malta convoys were Allied supply convoys of the Second World War. The convoys took place during the Siege of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre. Malta...
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Burt Young (category 1940 births)
Actor. Young also appeared in such films as Chinatown (1974), The Gambler (1974), The Killer Elite (1975), Convoy (1978), Uncle Joe Shannon (1978), Once...
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in 1940 by the USA as part of the "Destroyers for Bases Agreement": (also known as "The Fifty Ships that Saved the World"). She served on convoy duties...
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Battle of Cape Spartivento (category Malta Convoys)
Gibraltar-based Fleet, June 1940 to March 1942. London: Aurum Press. ISBN 1-84513-020-0. Hague, Arnold (2000). The Allied Convoy System 1939–1945. London:...
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Convoy HX 84 was the 84th of the numbered series of Allied North Atlantic HX convoys of merchant ships from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Bermuda to Liverpool...
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Battle of the Atlantic (redirect from Battle of the Atlantic (1940))
successfully in September and October 1940 to devastating effect, in a series of convoy battles. On September 21, convoy HX 72 of 42 merchantmen was attacked...
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list of British films released in 1940. 1940 in British music 1940 in British television 1940 in the United Kingdom "Garrison Follies (1940)". Archived from...
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the North Atlantic. On 11 December, U-96 made contact with the scattered convoy HX 92 and attacked the British passenger ship Rotorua of 10,890 GRT, sinking...
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This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1940–1949, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is...
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Siege of Malta (World War II) (redirect from Siege of Malta (1940))
rate for convoy safety running the British interdiction. Of the 73,991 men sent by sea, 71,881 (97%), arrived in Africa. On 10 December 1940, Fliegerkorps...
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Africa. Major convoy operations were mounted to sustain Malta and the island narrowly survived." Woodman, Richard (2000). Malta Convoys, 1940–1943. London:...
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illustrated by the fate of Convoy HX 84. On November 5, 1940, the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer encountered the convoy. Maiden, Trewellard, and Kenbame...
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Town-class destroyer (category North Atlantic convoys of World War II)
despite their disadvantages they were a welcome addition to forces escorting convoys in the Atlantic at a time when the U-boats, operating from newly acquired...
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Roy Kellino (category Film directors from London)
Aren't Men Beasts! (1937) Calling All Ma's (1937) Kate Plus Ten (1938) Convoy (1940) Nine Men (1943) Johnny Frenchman (1945) Actor Rob Roy (1922) The Further...
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SL convoys were a numbered series of North Atlantic trade convoys during the Second World War. Merchant ships carrying commodities bound to the British...
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increase quickly. From September 1939 through to March 1940, 15 U-boats were lost—nine to convoy escorts. The impressive tonnage sunk had little impact...
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northwest of Blasket Islands, Ireland. Her next quarry were the ships of convoy OB 318 east of Cape Farewell (Greenland). She successfully attacked and...
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HMS Jervis Bay (category Maritime incidents in November 1940)
was under repair for over six months. Jervis Bay then became a convoy escort in May 1940, based at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda. Given brief repairs...
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Michael Wilding (category English male film actors)
bigger film parts in There Ain't No Justice (1939), Convoy (1940), and Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940). He had a good role in Sailors Three (1940), and Sailors...
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Flower-class corvette (category North Atlantic convoys of World War II)
during World War II by the Allied navies particularly as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the Battle of the Atlantic. Royal Navy ships of this class were...
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SS America (1939) (redirect from SS America (1940))
America was an ocean liner and cruise ship built in the United States in 1940 for the United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect...
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The following is a list of feature films produced and distributed by the American studio Columbia Pictures from 1940 until 1949. During these years Columbia...
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who plays cat and mouse with him throughout the film. Meanwhile, U-boats are closing in on a convoy of thirty-seven ships from America, giving the code-breakers...
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Bruce Bennett (category American male film actors)
Lefty (first film credited as Bruce Bennett) Invisible Stripes (1939) as Rich Man (uncredited) Cafe Hostess (1940) as Budge Convicted Woman (1940) as Reporter...
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