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To: maceng2 who wrote (37130)8/12/2002 8:30:53 AM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 281500
 
Staggering loss of life. Particularly interested to see the stuff about Lend-Lease from Allies to the Soviets. I had no idea it even occurred, so am quite surprised to see how much we provided them.

>>The USA supplied the USSR with 6,430 planes, 3,734 tanks, 104 ships and boats, 210,000 autos, 3,000 anti-aircraft guns, 245,000 field telephones, gasoline, aluminum, copper, zinc, steel and five million tons of food. This was enough to feed an army of 12 million every day of the war. Britain supplied 5,800 planes, 4,292 tanks, and 12 minesweepers. Canada supplied 1,188 tanks, 842 armoured cars, nearly one million shells, and 208,000 tons of wheat and flour. The USSR depended on American trucks for its mobility since 427,000 out of 665,000 motor vehicles (trucks and jeeps) at the end of the war were of western origin.<<

infoukes.com

Well, the poor bastards paid us back, Soviets 13.7 million military dead, 7.7 million civilian dead.

That's what war is like, children. Remember it.