Operation Gearbox II
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L'Opération Gearbox II était une opération norvégienne et britannique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur l'île arctique du Spitzberg dans l'archipel du Svalbard. L' Opération Fritham, la première tentative d'établir une base météorologique, avait échoué car les deux navires transportant la force ont été coulés par des bombardiers de la Luftwaffe le 14 mai, qui fut suivi par la réussite de l' Opération Gearbox.
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Operation Gearbox II (17 September 1942 – 7 September 1943) was a Norwegian and British operation during the Second World War on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago. Operation Fritham, the first attempt to establish a base had been defeated when the two ships carrying the force were sunk by Luftwaffe bombers on 14 May.
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Operation Gearbox II (17 September 1942 – 7 September 1943) was a Norwegian and British operation during the Second World War on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago. Operation Fritham, the first attempt to establish a base had been defeated when the two ships carrying the force were sunk by Luftwaffe bombers on 14 May. In Operation Gearbox (30 June – 17 September 1942), 57 Norwegian reinforcements with 116 long tons (118 t) of supplies had arrived by cruiser on 2 July. The reinforcements consolidated the defences of the former settlement at Barentsburg and made preparations for Gearbox II, another reinforcement of the Norwegians and part of the plan for Convoy PQ 18, to prevent a repeat of Convoy PQ 17 (27 June – 10 July 1942) in which 24 of the 35 freighters in the convoy had been sunk. Force P (the Spitsbergen Fuelling Force) comprising the fleet oilers RFA Blue Ranger and and four destroyer escorts, sailed from Scapa Flow on 3 September and anchored in Lowe Sound (Van Mijenfjorden) several days later. From 9 to 13 September, relays of destroyers were detached from PQ 18 to refuel before the convoy passed Bjørnøya, into range of the Luftwaffe bombers and torpedo-bombers based in north Norway. After another German weather party was chased off the island by the Norwegians in June 1943, a German flotilla, including Tirpitz, raided Spitsbergen in Operation Zitronella on 7 September, took 31 prisoners and destroyed much of the infrastructure and equipment of Gearbox II. On 19 October, the cruiser USS Tuscaloosa and four destroyers delivered more Norwegian troops.
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