Operation “Wunderland”: Admiral Scheer in the Kara Sea, August 1942

Of all the high latitude theatres of naval operations in World War II. the Kara Sea theatre represents one of the most interesting, yet one of the least known. Hostilities in the Kara Sea were based on the belief held by German Naval Command that the Northern Sea Route was being utilized for the mov...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Barr, William
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1975
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Kara Sea
Canada
Pacific
Norway
Cruiser
Northern Norway
Northern Sea Route
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400032447
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400032447
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Summary:Of all the high latitude theatres of naval operations in World War II. the Kara Sea theatre represents one of the most interesting, yet one of the least known. Hostilities in the Kara Sea were based on the belief held by German Naval Command that the Northern Sea Route was being utilized for the movement of Lend-Lease materials from the Pacific coasts of Canada and the USA to the Russian front (Armstrong 1953:823, 1955:141; Huan 1958:156; Mineyev 1964:39). German attempts to disrupt these alleged movements were limited almost entirely to naval operations; the Luftwaffe played little part, since even the south-western approaches to the Kara Sea were out of reach of aircraft based in northern Norway (Huan 1958:156). Most of the activity involved U-boat attacks on shipping and on coastal sites, but on one occasion a German surface vessel, the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer was involved.

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