- opening title card: The decisive battles of WW2 were fought on the east front. The Allies supply weapons and provisions to the USSR. These goods are transported on civilian freighters, which go down in history as the Arctic Convoys. The crews, too, are civilians. These convoys are protected by allied military escorts. German airplanes, warships, and submarines are a constant threat.
- opening title card: Summer 1942. Convoy route Iceland-Murmansk. Estimated duration 12 days.
- closing title card: During WW2, a total of 78 Arctic Convoys carried four million tons of supplies to the USSR. Of these only one convoy was scattered. Of its 35 ships only eleven reached their destination.
- closing title card: More than 30,000 Norwegians were drafted ino the Norwegian Merchant Fleet. About 4,000 never made it home. The civilian mariners were Norway's greatest contribution to the Allies' victory.