“The Port Nicholson is a steel-hulled, 481 ft. merchant ship, coal fired freighter built in 1918 at the Tynes & Wear shipyard. She was carrying two special envoy USSR agents overseeing the delivery of a very important Lend-Lease payment from the USSR to USA.”
“A similar discovery occurred in 1981 when the HMS Edinburgh was discovered in the Barents Sea. It too carried a USSR Lend-lease payment. :
Wonder if any of Uncle Joe’s payments got through?
Zhukov in his memoirs said the Commies did not like the US manufactured tanks. They were like the Model A and were hard to start in the winter.
Not surprised. The T-34 and T-34-85 were superior to anything the US was building, at least until the M26 Pershing came along at the end of the war. The best feature of our tanks was that we built LOTS of them. A Sherman couldn't take on a Panther, but a dozen Shermans could.