[az_gila]

The Russians got millions of trucks ... well, maybe hundreds of thousands ... from the U.S.

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They got a lot of those goods, including P-39’s and Hurricane planes via convoys to Russia through the Arctic waters.

An interesting book on the sacrifice of those sailors -

http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Sacrifice-Convoys-General-Military/dp/1849087180

My uncle - who is still alive - sailed in the Royal Navy on a US-built Destroyer Escort in the North Atlantic and Arctic.

As the book's title said, they were forgotten heroes. The Royal Navy only started awarding a medal for their efforts two years ago -

http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2013/february/26/130226-arctic-convoy-heroes-can-begin-applying-for-their-ww2-campaign-medal-now

[Tax-chick]

Thanks! I'm always interested in new books! The novel The Cruel Sea deals with this subject, but I don't recall reading anything else, except perhaps articles in Military History.