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To: Egberto; crowman; monkeywrench

Yeah, this helped the Soviets out in no way at all....

US deliveries to USSR
The list 1 below is the amount of war material shipped to the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program. It is the total amount of matériel from the beginning to September 30, 1945.

Aircraft.............................14,795
Tanks.................................7,056
Jeeps................................51,503
Trucks..............................375,883
Motorcycles..........................35,170
Tractors..............................8,071
Guns..................................8,218
Machine guns........................131,633
Explosives..........................345,735 tons
Building equipment valued.......$10,910,000
Railroad freight cars................11,155
Locomotives...........................1,981
Cargo ships..............................90
Submarine hunters.......................105
Torpedo boats...........................197
Ship engines..........................7,784
Food supplies.....................4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment.......$1,078,965,000
Noniron metals......................802,000 tons
Petroleum products................2,670,000 tons
Chemicals...........................842,000 tons
Cotton..........................106,893,000 tons
Leather..............................49,860 tons
Tires.............................3,786,000
Army boots.......................15,417,000 pairs

Not to mention, opening the second front that Stalin pushed for at every conference.


173 posted on 03/22/2006 11:33:41 AM PST by unionblue83
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To: unionblue83

I just read some interesting info on German air-defense weapons in WWII...The German 88 was primary and excellent for both vertical and horizontal firing, which made it deadly toward planes or TANKS...The info stated that if the Germans didn't need so many 88's for air denense [30,000 total anti-aircraft weapons] they could have DOUBLED their ANTI-TANK arsenal of 88's on the EASTERN Front...another Russian benefit of the Allied Bombing...


188 posted on 03/25/2006 1:28:12 PM PST by crowman
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