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To: Hoplite

I’ll give you the first one. The 2-1/2 Ton Truck. Most of them were manufactured by GM, but all the motor companies pitched in on them.

The small item is machine tools.


15 posted on 01/01/2014 10:31:54 AM PST by CougarGA7 ("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
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To: CougarGA7

The occasional tank or airplane didn’t make much impact for the Soviets. Soviet weapons were pretty high quality and obviously high quantity. The trucks were a huge difference, but there were a lot of little things we provided. Food, cloth fabric for uniforms, boots, radios, and waterproof telephone cable were all things the Soviets needed but couldn’t make. It wasn’t so much a lack of know-how as much as the destruction and dislocation from the German invasion limited what the Soviets could make. They chose to make weapons, we supplied the rest. It was a sensible arrangement.


20 posted on 01/01/2014 11:45:31 AM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: CougarGA7
Dunno how authentic this is, but I've never seen a complete breakdown such as that before.

We supplied the Soviets the 400 lipsticks that won the war!

26 posted on 01/01/2014 5:57:07 PM PST by Hoplite
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