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May 5th, 2017 | #1 |
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US Aid to USSR Via Lend-Lease
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May 8th, 2017 | #2 |
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From what I've read, Soviet aviators liked the P-39 and P-63 fighters because of its 37mm cannon, good for taking out tanks. Americans didn't favor the planes so much because they had poor performance at higher altitudes, but was a moot point in ground attack. The Soviets didn't like the Allied tanks supplied to them as much as their own T-34 and KV-1 tanks (The Germans even copied the T-34 design in their own Panther tank). But yes, the most useful vehicles they received were trucks and locomotives. They got millions of cans of Spam, too.
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Technology is, of course, an important thing, but if the Soviet troops did not put all their efforts on the verge of a breakdown, then there would not be those who needed this technique.
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July 19th, 2017 | #5 |
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Lend-Lease trucks and jeeps were some of the most important items sent, more so than tanks and airplanes. The Soviet Army received hundreds of thousands during the war.
After the war, thousands of surviving vehicles, tanks and planes were put under hydraulic presses and crushed into scrap metal. What a pity. Not many survive in museums today. The Americans did this with their war surplus, too.
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Here is a BM-13N Katyusha on display at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. It uses a Lend-Lease US-built Studebaker US6 as its base.
This M4 Sherman is on display at the Central Museum of Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kiev. It was knocked out by the Germans during the Great Patriotic War and recovered from a bog in 2004. Here is a Lend-Lease P-39Q Airacobra at the Aviation Museum of Central Finland, shot down by the Finns during WWII.
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