translate English to French: The cold and the seas were about as bad, but the average Russian convoy took only six to eight days to reach its destination, as opposed to the 10 to 15 it took to escort a slow convoy across the North Atlantic.
L’appui aérien assuré par les avions basés dans l’archipel britannique [y compris les escadrons de l’ARC] est limité aux ressources de l’Islande et de Sullom Voe [dans les Shetland].