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US Aid to USSR Via Lend-Lease
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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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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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The Soviet Air Force (VVS) received a total of 862 Lend-Lease B-25 'Mitchell' medium bombers. This aircraft is famous for being used in Jimmy Doolittle's 18 April 1942 Tokyo raid. The Soviets operated the B-25 in ground support and tactical daylight bombing, and a small number as transports.
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Soviet Spitfires
The Soviet Union received 1,333 Supermarine Spitfires during WW2. Russian aviators didn't particularly like them, as some Allied-built aircraft and tanks weren't really suited to the rigors of combat on the Eastern Front. The Lend-Lease Spits were not even supplied with maintenance manuals! So Red Army mechanics and pilots had to work it out on their own. Pilots did like the Spit's handling and flying characteristics however, compared to other machines.
http://www.airpages.ru/eng/uk/spitll9.shtml/
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Tu-4: Russian B-29
While not a Lend-Lease item, the USSR produced in postwar a close copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress called the Tu-4 (NATO name: "Bull"). In WW2, 3 USAAF B-29s made emergency landings in Soviet territory after bombing missions over Japan. Lacking a modern heavy bomber of his own, Stalin ordered the design bureau of Andrei N. Tupolev to reverse-engineer the B-29, and the first Soviet-made version, the Tu-4, first flew in 1947 and entered service in 1949. The aircraft dropped the first Soviet atomic bomb the same year. Tu-4 spawned a number of other Soviet military bombers and transports in addition to civilian airliners. An interesting fact about the B-29 is both the present-day Russian Tu-95 "Bear" series and the US B-52 bomber are descendants of this airplane.
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Tsar Bomba was originally planned to be a 100 megaton device, but the delivery aircraft could not have escaped the blast in time, so it was downgraded to 50mt, still the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated.
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Many uniforms, shoes and boots for Soviet Army soldiers were manufactured in the US under Lend-Lease. Most were made in the USSR however, as they had many millions of men (and women) under arms during the war.
This is an American collector/re-enactor modeling the uniforms and equipment in the video. I'm jealous of this guy for having all this stuff, I wish I did. A lot of this type of gear was used into the 1980s into the Afghan war period. The ushanka is still in use, of course. Alex Him served in the Russian army, so he could probably answer all that for certain better than me. I admit it, I also like the Hunt For Red October soundtrack.
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Destruction of Convoy PQ17
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American Lend-Lease tanks recovered from Barents Sea
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