Most of the vehicles we gave the Soviets were trucks, which they need badly. We gave them relatively M4 Sherman tanks. The didn't need them. They had the T34, the best tank of the war. It was in production into the 1950's and was still in use as late as the 90's.
Tank for tank, a late war T-34 will eat a Sherman for breakfast.
Wow I loused that post up badly, let’s try it again:
Most of the vehicles we gave the Soviets were trucks, which they needed badly. We gave them relatively few M4 Sherman tanks. The didn’t need them. They had the T-34, the best tank of the war. It was in production into the 1950’s and was still in use as late as the 90’s.
Tank for tank, a late war T-34 will eat a Sherman for breakfast.
Not exactly. What you say is true overall. But a new study came out about two years ago showing that at the battle of Moscow (41-42) the OVERWHELMING number of tanks were either Shermans or British tanks, and 85% of their heavy tanks were Brit. We made, or designed, Soviet aircraft engines until 1945; we made all their radio wire; we made a lot of their radios; and it was the shipping through the Arctic ports (thanks Henry Kaiser) that kept the USSR afloat (no pun intended) at all. Moreover, new studies on US/Brit intelligence show that the Russkis won key tactical showdowns because of what we were feeding them. Oh, and the T-34 was based on an American design.