Dudley Pound
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the First World War as a battleship commander, taking part in the Battle of Jut
Pound in 1939
The battlecruiser HMS Repulse, which Pound commanded in the early 1920s
Pound on board the RMS Queen Mary sailing to the United States
Admiral Pound (standing, far right) at the Atlantic Conference in 1941
Convoy PQ 17
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Convoy PQ 17 was an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War. The convoy was the first large joint Anglo–American naval operation under British command. The ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Icel
Dudley Pound
…has been questioned over the failed Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and his dismissal of Admiral Dudley North in 1940. His order in July 1942 to disperse Convoy PQ 17 and withdraw its covering forces, to counter a possible (though never transpired) threat from heavy German surface ships, led to the convoy's destruction…
Escorts and merchant ships at Hvalfjörður May 1942 before the sailing of Convoy PQ 17.
An Enigma coding machine
A Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Kondor of KG 40
Example of a Heinkel He 59 search and rescue aircraft (1940)