To: GeronL
Yep, we sent the Soviets a bunch of stuff
I don't have it at my fingertips, but the numbers are staggering. FAR more than I thought, before I read the figures which, suspiciously (wink wink), are hard to gather up and were downplayed by the press (Imagine that!) immediately after the war.
The preferred narrative was ...Stalingrad! and the Glorious Soldiers Soviet, comrade. Epic battle, no question at all and a turning point, but the 43-45 Soviet counteroffensives were done on the backs of US 6X6's
To: 98ZJ USMC
and we even found it being used against us later.
For instance an American-built Soviet bomber was used against ships during the Inchon landing during the Korean War.
81 posted on
06/07/2014 10:51:06 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: 98ZJ USMC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#US_deliveries_to_the_USSR
“The Persian Corridor was the longest route, and was not fully operational until mid-1942. Thereafter it saw the passage of 4,160,000 tons of goods, 27% of the total.”
4.1 million tons through that route was 27% of the total, so we sent something like 15 million tons of materiel through Lend-Lease to the Soviets?
82 posted on
06/07/2014 10:54:18 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: 98ZJ USMC; a fool in paradise
Maybe the city should be named
Studebakergrad!!
83 posted on
06/07/2014 10:55:15 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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