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HMS Edinburgh embarked 5 tons...

history · 26 April 1942 · 82 years ago

HMS Edinburgh embarked 5 tons of Soviet gold worth about £5,000,000 at Murmansk, Russia; it was meant to be the down payment for US war goods. 

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