The British Broadcasting Corporation The hidden past of Exmoor’s WW2 training site A radar station ... heritage is being ...

Somerset's rich wartime heritage is being celebrated with a convoy of military vehicles ... and was part of a coastal defensive chain to identify ships and low-flying aircraft.

By 1945, the convoys had transported four million tons of supplies and munitions. The supply ships and the warships escorting them came under attack from German U-boat submarines and aircraft.

The Arctic convoy ship Thomas Donaldson was sunk by a German submarine at the end of World War Two in the western tip of Kildin Island near the entrance to the Kola Bay. It sank at a depth of 55 ...