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Discover the worst convoy disaster of WWII. July 4, 1942: Convoy PQ-17 is fighting its way to Russia with 35 merchant ships and the strongest escort ever assigned. They're winning. Then London sends an order that makes no sense: "CONVOY IS TO SCATTER." Within minutes, 35 ships turn away from each other and head in different directions—alone, unprotected, defenseless. German U-boats and aircraft hunt them down one by one. In five days, 24 ships are sunk. 153 men die. 430 tanks, 210 aircraft, and 99,316 tons of cargo go to the bottom. All because Admiral Dudley Pound made a decision based on bad intelligence. The German battleship Tirpitz—the threat that triggered the scatter order—never came within 300 miles of the convoy. This is the story of how a single wrong decision destroyed an entire convoy.

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