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Northern Sold
12:01 Thu May 7
Re: "If it wasn't for us you'd be speaking German"
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The simple fact is without the US's industrial might we was not going anywhere... in the lend-lease scheme from the US we was given...
14,000 Sherman Tanks
1000;s of Lee tanks
1000's of Sturat tanks
50 Destroyers
100's of Liberty Ships
1000's of Higgins landing Crafts
1000s of Dakotas
1000;s of Willy Jeeps
1000;s of trucks
1000's of half tracks
1000's of self propelled guns
1000's of DUKW's
10000;s of Thompson Sub machine guns
10000's of Browning heavy machine guns
Along with 1000;s of B17;s Flying Fortresses & Mustangs flying from the UK with the 8th USAF
10000's of Browning heavy machine guns
Also the lend to lease from the US to USSR
In total, the US deliveries through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386[25] of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans);[26] 11,400 aircraft (4,719 of which were Bell P-39 Airacobras)[27] and 1.75 million tons of food.[28]
Roughly 17.5 million tons of military equipment, vehicles, industrial supplies, and food were shipped from the Western Hemisphere to the USSR, 94% coming from the US. For comparison, a total of 22 million tons landed in Europe to supply American forces from January 1942 to May 1945. It has been estimated that American deliveries to the USSR through the Persian Corridor alone were sufficient, by US Army standards, to maintain sixty combat divisions in the line.[29][30]
The United States gave to the Soviet Union from October 1, 1941 to May 31, 1945 the following: 427,284 trucks, 13,303 combat vehicles, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 ordnance service vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products (gasoline and oil), 4,478,116 tons of foodstuffs (canned meats, sugar, flour, salt, etc.), 1,900 steam locomotives, 66 Diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. One item typical of many was a tire plant that was lifted bodily from the Ford Company's River Rouge Plant and transferred to the USSR.
I believe without the inclusion of the US industrial might the war would not have been won..
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