The agreement stated that the Soviet government was responsible for receiving the supplies in Soviet ships at British or American ports. The most direct way to carry these supplies was by sea around the North Cape, through Arctic waters to the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk.
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The Beaverbrook- Harriman Anglo-American Mission visited Moscow in October 1941, agreeing to a series of munitions deliveries to the Soviet Union. With Operation Barbarossa, the beginning of the German war against the USSR, the British and American governments agreed to send unconditional aid to their Soviet allies.
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PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War.